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Alejandra Amarilla: The Filmmaker Behind the Story of Landfill Harmonic

Introduction Alejandra Amarilla is often introduced with six words: Steve Nash’s former wife. The description is accurate, but it leaves out the work for which she has the clearest independent public record. The Paraguayan-born filmmaker originated the documentary project that became Landfill Harmonic, a film about the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, where children learned music on instruments fashioned from discarded…