Manufactured Landscapes is an award winning documentary film about the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky. Director Jennifer Baichwal followed Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia as he took large-scale photographs of giant industrial landscapes around the world. The film explores Burtynksy's work through interviews in the field and in the studio, detailed images of his photographs, and live filming of his subject matter. While the film clearly serves as a commentary on the impact of large scale industrialization on our natural world, Burtynsky and the film makers were careful neither to criticize, nor praise these developments. Many of Burtynsky's photographs feature stunning and sometimes beautiful landscapes of areas completely transformed by human activity, which contrasts the adverse affects these landscapes represent. The film examines Burtynsky's photographs of: * Factories in China * Garbage and recycling in China * Coal industry in China * Three Gorges Dam in China * Ship building in China * Ship breaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh * Mining around the world * The transformation of old neighborhoods in Shanghai