| DATE: | Thursday, October 5, 2006 |
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| TIME: | 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM |
| PLACE: | 145 Dwinelle Hall |
| FORMAT: | Film screening |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund |
FREE - Special sneak preview. BANNED IN CHINA
China Blue takes us on a poignant journey inside a blue-jeans factory, The working conditions Jasmine and her teenage friends must survive are harsh beyond imagination. They are also unlawful by international standards, and tensions in the factory are running high. So when the factory owner strikes a deal with a Western client and demands around-the-clock production to meet the deadline, 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.
Winner of the Amnesty International Human Rights Award at the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival, the film will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Micha Peled, and Todd Carrel (Journalism), Katie Quan (Institute of Industrial Relations), moderated by Tom Gold, Director, Berkeley China Initiative.
