Politica Cinema screened this film this past week-end & it is truly excellent. A must see film for everyone in your family.

ON AIR: December 19 10:02 PM

ON AIR: December 24 12:03 AM

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/film.html

http://www.argotpictures.com/ChinaBlue.html

China Blue

What neither China nor the international retail companies want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this film offers a nuanced and tender portrait of the daily lives of two young workers, Jasmine and Orchid, and an alarming report on the economic pressures applied by Western companies and their human consequences.

REVIEWS

" a heartbreaking and meticulous documentary about life inside a blue-jeans factory."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Eye opening........ Peled was harassed at every turn by Chinese officials, but he managed to get this shocking film made. That's just one reason "China Blue" is worthy of praise."
NEW YORK POST

"What stands out is the filmmaker's remarkable level of access and the complex portrait of globalization as an intractable beast that relies on consumer complicity in viewing foreign laborers as subhuman. Buy American. "
TIME OUT NEW YORK

"The most heartbreaking, moving film in theaters right now is not "Babel," "Letters From Iwo Jima" or "Little Children." It is "China Blue," a documentary about sweatshop workers at a denim factory...This is an unforgettable film."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"The film is a unflinching indictment of globalization and the unfettered consumerism that fuels it. The cheap clothes we wear come at a high price, for real people."
MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL

"No, this isn't softcore for Asiaphiles. Ducking Chinese government watchdogs (who tried to shut him down several times), Bay Area documentarian Micha X. Peled got unprecedented access to a blue jeans factory in the southern garment-manufacturing city Shaxi thanks to its proud owner, who no doubt has come to regret his decision...It's a verite portrait of adolescents who are instantly recognizable, though their sweatshop environs strike us as nearly unendurable."
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

"Compelling...gives the phrase "sweatshop" a whole different perspective."
MIAMI HERALD

"surprisingly fair-minded....it gives its heart and soul to the girls."
THE NATION

"Heartbreaking yet boldly essential...fairly balanced and richly human."
SEATTLE TIMES

"Commendable in its fair depiction of the problems faced by the textile industry."
SEATTLE PI

"A shocking experience."
THE L MAGAZINE

"Peled’s film is a must-see—if not by the average consumer, then by politicians and U.N. officials."
FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

"There's a terrible irony, then, to the designer jeans uniformly worn by teenage laborers featured in CHINA BLUE, Micha X. Peled's meticulously livid expose of a sweatshop in Southern China."
SF WEEKLY

"The Best Documentary of Toronto 2005 Micha Peled’s China Blue, a heartbreaking, truly unforgettable cinéma-vérité"
- THE BOSTON PHOENIX

"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