China Blue USA / China
2005, 87min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Dir. of Phot.: Micha X. Peled, Compos.: Miriam Cutler, Sound: Song Chen, Edit.: Manuel Tsingaris.
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.
Production Company
Teddy Bear Films
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Awards
Winner (IDFA, Amsterdam, 2005); DOEN/Amnesty International Human Rights Award.
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Micha Peled is one of the few people who has arrived in the United States by hitchhiking. Peled has worked as an importer of hammocks and sheepskin jackets, a tutor, a prison guard, a freelance journalist, the manager of a winning political campaign, etc. He has guided adventure trips into the jungles of Thailand and Brazil, and published a slim volume of fiction, The Fisherman and the Nymph. In 1992, Peled left his job as director of Media Alliance, a media watchdog group, to become a full-time filmmaker. His first-person documentary Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin?has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. He produced three versions of Inside God's Bunker, which aired on television in 15 countries in Europe, Australia and Japan. All of Peled's films have aired on PBS. They have been exhibited in numerous film festivals around the world, including Berlin, Rotterdam, Marseilles, Amsterdam, Montreal, Hawaii, the Human Rights FF in New York, the San Antonio Festival of Latin Cinema and the Philippines Centennial Celebration of Cinema. Store Wars was awarded the Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco IFF.
Filmography
Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin? (1992), Inside God’s Bunker (1994), You, Me, Jerusalem (1996), Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town (2001), China Blue (2005).
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