A spiritual companion piece to David Redmon's 2005 MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA, Micha Peled's examines a downside of globalization: The plight of underaged, underpaid workers sewing plus-size jeans in Chinese sweatshops.
Isreali-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker Peled smuggled equipment to Guangdong Province's Shaxi -– the mainland's famous "Clothing Town" -- from Hong Kong and defied Chinese authorities who tried to shut him down (and later tried to prevent the film from being shown at the Toronto Film Festival), and the film he went home with his heartbreaking. Peled focuses on 16-year-old Jasmine, a country girl supporting her relatives by working at the...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins