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China Blue
China Blue
Doc. | USA 2005, 87 Min.
Sixteen-year-old Jasmine is a thread-cutter at the Lifeng Factory, one of dozens of denim manufacturers in Shaxi, South China. As she puts it, she 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. Excited to be helping her family when she gets the job, Jasmine sets out from the farm to the factory, knowing little about the labour conditions in Shaxi. Soon she is working gruelling sixteen-hour days for scant wages. Disco-dancing and modelling lessons from Orchid and midnight trips downtown to buy “energy tea” with Liping provide Jasmine with camaraderie and some relief from the onerous production cycle and harsh working conditions. Shot clandestinely, 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, this tender documentary illuminates the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences.
China Blue was part of the touring film festival 'ueber Arbeiten'.
More information on the festival here>>
Credits
- USA, 2005, color, 87’
- Director, Cinematography: Micha X. Peled
- Sound: Song Chen
- Editing: Manuel Tsingaris
- Music: Miriam Cutler
- Producers: Teddy Bear Films - Micha X. Peled
- Original language version: Chinese/English
- Theatrical version: original version with German subtitles
- suitable for all ages
- available as DCP (Digital Cinema Package) Master for all D/E-Cinema systems, DVD
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