China Blue

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CHINA BLUE

A film by MICHA X. PELED

Toronto Film Festival 2005, Joris Ivens Competition IDFA 2005 Amnesty International Award IDFA 2005

CHINA BLUE takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where 16 year old Jasmine makes the “big and fat†jeans we wear. Like her new friends at the factory - Liping, a seamstress, and Orchid, a zipper installer - Jasmine is one of hundreds of millions of people, mostly young women, who make up the largest pool of cheap labour in the world, trying to survive a harsh working environment.

CHINA BLUE paints a nuanced, thorough and ultimately moving portrait of the daily lives of the anonymous young workers who make our clothes. As well, CHINA BLUE illuminates the economic pressures applied by Western companies and the consequences for the workers. 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 and under what circumstances.

USA | 2005 | 88’ & 58’