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China Blue (2005)
Actually....
The movie was shown at our school just two Thursdays ago, May 14th, to kick off the Southwest Labor Studies Association's 35th Annual Conference with this year's theme revolving around the Labor's Role at the Grassroots Level. The director, Micha Peled, was there to watch it with us and to discuss it afterwords. The clip that you saw at Columbia University was about a girl in a sweat shop making clothes, yes, but her name was not Jasmine. Here's the thing, Micha Peled would send clips back to the use for editing during his first unlicensed filming in China. Him and his crew were finishing up the making of this film "a couple of years ago" and went to this girl's house (I think her name meant Little Fish) to finish up the final scenes, but they were caught by the Chinese police and all of their film was confiscated and his crew was thrown in jail. Therefore, they had to start from scratch, in a whole new factory, with different characters, dodging and ducking police even more so than before. This non-fictional documentary is incredibly eye opening and gives faces to the trials and tribulations of the Chinese sweat shop workers. You should feel ridiculous for not doing your research.