China Blue
In Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles • California's nostalgia for blue jeans as an icon of savvy Gold Rush-era entrepreneurship is turned inside out in China Blue. This potent documentary enters a sweatshop in China, to look at daily life for the mostly teenage girls who put in the zippers and snip the loose threads on the jeans the West craves. Millions of people have migrated from rural life to factories for the “opportunity” to earn a handful of pennies an hour. Focusing on three such workers as well as the factory's owner, director Micha Peled movingly captures this intersection of Chinese society and international commerce. Undervalued, overworked and misled–much like their bosses, who are constantly under pressure by the likes of Wal-Mart and Levi's to lower costs–these girls remain simply themselves, giggling and dreaming, writing stories, radiating sweetness. It will be hard not to think of them every time you shop. — J. Campbell
Presented in association with the Center for Asian American Media.
Director: Micha Peled
Producer: Micha Peled
Cinematographer: Micha Peled
Editor: Manuel Tsingaris
Print Source: Teddy Bear Fims
690 Fifth Street
Ste. 102
San Francisco, CA, 94107
Tel: 415.348.1796
Official Website: teddybearfilms.com
Sponsor:
Katz Family Foundation
