2nd Annual Anti-Sweatshop Film Festival!
This week marks the second film in our film festival.
We are showing Made in LA (a 2008 Emmy Award Winner) with Almundena Carrecedo, Director, Producer, Writer and Cinematographer and Robert Bahar, Producer, Co-Writer in attendance!
This feature event of our festival not only includes the showing of this award winning film but a discussion with the filmmakers. The documentary itself focuses on the story of three immigrant workers Lupe, Maria and Maura, as they toil 14 hours a day in a garment factory in LA for a sub-contractor who avoids minimum wage laws or a safe working environment. Acceptance of these conditions changes as activists from the Garment Worker’s Center help them to organize and challenge the large retailer whose clothes they sew. Both drama and humor weave this true tale into a powerful story. “An excellent documentary…about basic human dignity” New York Times. “A rousing true story of solidarity, perseverance, and triumph” Variety.
Film begins at 7, discussion to follow. Location: Traditions Fair Trade, Olympia, WA.
Other films in our series include:
The Story of Stuff : From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever Visit it: www.thestoryofstuff.com (Nov 10th showing, 7pm Traditions)
Behind the Swoosh: examines working conditions for workers at a Nike factory. Visit www.behindtheswoosh.org (Nov 10th showing, 7pm Traditions)
Made in China: this film follows the lives of a typical migrant couple, Heqing and Heping Fan, including their first trip home after two years in the city. They both work in the Cixi Industrial Zone, a manufacturing center with over 1,000,000 workers, mostly former peasants, south of Shanghai, in a plant making bathroom products for export. They work seven days a week, twelve hours a day for approximately $.45 an hour or about $250 a month. Each month they save about $150 dollars to send back to their village. The factory owner feels he is doing his workers a service; rural China is overpopulated and industrialization is the only answer for surplus peasants. (Nov 24th showing 7pm Traditions)
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