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CHINA BLUE

Country of production: USA/China
Year: 2005
Mins: 88

Direction: Micha X. Peled
Producer: Micha X. Peled
Cinematography: Micha X. Peled
Editing: Manuel A. Tsingaris
Music Composed by: Miriam Cutler
Sound: Song Chen


CHINA BLUE takes us on a poignant journey inside a blue-jeans factory, where the working conditions Jasmine and her teenage friends must endure 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.

Micha X. Peled has produced and directed numerous documentary films for U.S. and European broadcasters since 1992. In 2005 he completed his first feature documentary, China Blue, which follows a teenage girl who leaves her village to get a job in a sweatshop jeans factory in China. The film had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2005 and its European premier at IDFA -- the Int’l Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. At IDFA, the film was nominated for the main competition Joris Ivens prize, and won the Amnesty Human rights award. It will air on PBS in 2007.

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