City Hall Arts Center
From the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival: They live crowded together in cement factory dormitories where water has to be carried upstairs in buckets. Their meals and rent are deducted from their wages, which amount to less than a dollar a day. Most of the jeans they make in the factory are purchased by retailers in the United States and other countries. CHINA BLUE takes viewers inside a blue jeans factory in southern China, where teenage workers struggle to survive harsh working conditions. Providing perspectives from both the top and bottom levels of the factory’s hierarchy, the film looks at complex issues of globalization from the human level. Supported in part by the Vermont Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Community Partners: Vermont Workers’ Center, Green Mountain Forum on Globalization. Post-film event: Discussion with University of Vermont anti-sweatshop activists. No rating, 85 minutes, in Chinese with subtitles.
Film review
- Friday, March 28 4:00 pm
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