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Vicky Funari |
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Abstract: One of the millions of women laboring for poverty wages in the factories of transnational corporations, Carmen Durán works in one of Tijuana’s maquiladoras. Suffering from kidney damage and lead poisoning from years of exposure to toxic chemicals, she earns six dollars a day on which she must support herself and three children. When the Sanyo plant where Carmen worked moves to Indonesia and tries to avoid paying the legally-mandated severance pay, Carmen becomes a promotora (grassroots activist), challenging the illegal tactics of the powerful transnationals. Through sheer persistence, Carmen and her fellow workers win the severance pay to which they were entitled. In making this documentary, the filmmakers worked collaboratively with the factory workers, providing cameras to the women, enabling them to document their daily lives. Production Date: 2006 Distributor: California Newsreel 500 Third St., Ste. 505 San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone: 415-284-7800, X 304 Fax: 415-284-7801 Email / Website: sn@newsreel.org http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0192 Running Time: 68 Medium: DVD Film Credits: In collaboration with: Grupo Factor X, Chilpancingo Collective for Environmental Justice, Women's Rights Advocates Film Purpose: To create this film, the producers brought together factory workers in Tijuana and community organizations in Mexico and the U.S. to collaborate on a film that depicts globalization through the eyes of the women who live on its leading edge. The factory workers who appear in the film have been involved in every stage of production, from planning to shooting, from scripting to outreach. This collaborative process breaks with the traditional documentary practice of dropping into a location, shooting and leaving with the "goods," which would only repeat the pattern of the maquiladora itself. The process embraces subjectivity as a value and a goal. It merges artmaking with community development to ensure that the film's voice will be truly that of its subjects. Film Audience: Anthropologists whose scholarly interests are related to any of the following: labor, globalization, gender, economic development, capitalism, human rights, or Latin America Filmmaker: Vicky Funari Keywords: labor, globalization, Latin America |
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