The students spent two intensive weeks shooting footage for a documentary about the people working at Gericino, the last operating garbage dump in the city. The documentary is currently in post-production and is scheduled to be screened this fall.
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Four journalism students from Northwestern University in Qatar traveled to Rio de Janeiro this summer to examine how Brazil's second largest city is recovering from rapid urbanization, focusing on how the local government deals with the mountains of garbage produced by the metropolitan's more than 12.5 million inhabitants.
NU-Q rising seniors Sidra Ayub and Salima Al Ismaili, rising junior Zena Al Tahhan, and locally-based journalist Juliana Tafur, a Northwestern alumna.
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Posted by Rana MesbahTuesday, July 24 - 2012 at 15:47 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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