March 24, 2007
Film Stills: China Blue
Workers demonstrate how much bigger are their western customers.
Jasmine is leaving her Sichuan village for a factory job and a new life two-day travel away. She won’t be back home for more than a year.
The round-the-clock schedule has Jasmine and other workers fall asleep right on their work piles.
"China Blue takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.
Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep access account of what both China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see – how the clothes we buy are actually made."
more info: http://chinablue.docsite.org/home
Posted by Stubbornson at March 24, 2007 02:31 PM