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DOC SPACE .. PRESENT SCREENINGS.. FUTURE SCREENINGS

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a year-round program in between the CIDF editions which puts the spotlight on
remarkable true stories from all over the world and provides an opportunity
to catch exclusive previews and premieres of outstanding new documentary films

. REVIEWS

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