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CHINA BLUE – a daring documentary film
takes the viewer inside a Chinese blue-jean
sweatshop and opens in New York this week:
Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan @
32 2nd Ave. & 2nd. St.
(212)-505-5181

January 26 to February 1, 2007 (one week only)

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

SHOWTIMES:
Nightly at 7 & 9pm (no 7pm Wed., Jan. 31st)
also Sat. & Sun., Jan. 27th & 28th @ 5pm

Director Micha Peled Q & A:
Jan. 26th & 27th, 7pm & 9pm shows.

Tickets:
$8 (General Admission)
$6 (Students/Seniors)
$5 Members

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.

CHINA BLUE; 86 minutes Directed by Micha Peled 2005

www.teddy’bearfilms.com
http://www.argotpictures.com/ChinaBlue.html
* “The tacit fury of China Blue…” -Richard Corliss, TIME magazine
* “Pic’s degree of access and intimacy is
surprising, even more so when closing
intertitles reveal Chinese authorities did
try to shut down the filmmakers several times…. engaging in character and
narrative terms… much of China Blue is
charming, because its subjects are… Micha
Peled’s docu China Blue makes a stronger
case against worker exploitation than any
news item could…” -Daily Variety
* “The Best Documentary of Toronto
2005? Micha Peled’s China Blue, a
heartbreaking, truly unforgettable cinma-vrit” -The Boston Phoenix
* “Must-see film for anyone interested in
global issues…A compelling story…” -The
Toronto Globe and Mail — reader’s review
* “..No less harrowing an undertaking
was San Francisco director Micha X.
Peled’s/China Blue/ , a riveting
documentary that follows the lives of three
teenage girls trying to survive by working
practically 24/7 in a Chinese blue jeans
factory. All filming in China requires a
permit so Peled and his crew smuggled a
disassembled camera into shopping bags then shot clandestinely, enduring police interrogations and arrests along with lost weeks of work due to confiscated tapes.
This is a “Heart-Wrenching Story” of the exploitation of young optimism and energy
by the faceless state and the desire for
profit. See it before you head off to the
mall for that clothing sale.” -PACIFIC SUN
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