China blue [videorecording] / director and producer, Micha X. Peled ; a co-production of Teddy Bear Films and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

Container title also in Chinese: Zhongguo zheng lan

1594585288
9781594585289

Oley, PA : Bullfrog FIlms, [2005]

Chinese

Dialogues mainly in Chinese, with some English; subtitles in English.

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

761326528820

HD6073.C62 C55 2005

338.47687

This documentary visits a Chinese blue-jean factory, where workers 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.
"Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers' faraway village, this documentary provides a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation into a free market society." -- Container.

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Special features: Q & A with director; additional scenes; promotional film for Lifeng Factory; trailer; photo gallery; contact info.
Interviewees include Mr. Lam, Jasmine Lee, Yang Ching, Dr. Liu Kaiming.

Associate producer/sound/translation supervisor, Song Chen ; camera, Micha X. Peled ; editor, Manuel A. Tsingaris ; composer, Miriam Cutler ; voice over readings by Zhongbao Wu and Su Guo Liang ; translation consultant, Bonny Lin ; Chinese dialect translation, Dr. Liang Song, Joanne Lee, Xin Yae, Shihling Ming, Dr. Wenli Wang, Ming Ji Hong, Ting Louie.

DVD-R.
NTSC.

Winner, Micha X. Peled, 2005 Amnesty International - DOEN Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

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