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Maquilapolis = City of factories
Title
Maquilapolis = City of factories / ITVS ; a CineMamás film ; produced and directed by Vicky Funari, Sergio De La Torre in collaboration with the women of Grupo Factor X, Colectivo Chilpancingo, Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres ; co-producers, Darcy McKinnon, Annelise Wunderlich ; in association with the Independent Television Service.
Publication
[San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, [2006]
Copyright Notice Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (68 min.)) : sound, color
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from title frames.
"The women in this film developed and created its images, sounds and ideas in collaboration with the filmmakers."--Credits
Editor, Vicky Funari ; original score, Pauline Oliveros with Bostich and Fussible Nortec Collective, and John Blue ; 16 mm cinematography, Daniel Gorrell, Sophia Constantinou ; aerial photography, Martin Zimmerman ; transcriber, David Sweet-Cordero.
In Spanish with English subtitles and some English with Spanish subtitles.
Won 2006 CPH:DOX, Amnesty Award - Honorable Mention
Won 2006 Tribeca Film Festival Special Jury Prize, Outstanding achievement in documentary
Nominated 2006 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award, Best Documentary Feature
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Summary
Using video diaries kept by two women promotoras (community activists), this documentary explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana's maquiladoras, the multinationally owned factories that came to Mexico for cheap labor. Maquiladora workers--overwhelmingly women--produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations, toxic waste dumps, and the unhealthy conditions in the colonias where they live. As globalization turns workers into a commodity that can be bought anywhere in the world for the lowest price, the stories of Carmen and Lourdes illustrate what can be accomplished with determination and faith in the future.
Variant and related titles
City of factories
ASP-AVON. OCLC KB.
Other formats
DVD version: Maquilapolis. San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2006]
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Spanish; English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2023
Credits
Editor, Vicky Funari ; original score, Pauline Oliveros with Bostich and Fussible Nortec Collective, and John Blue ; 16 mm cinematography, Daniel Gorrell, Sophia Constantinou ; aerial photography, Martin Zimmerman ; transcriber, David Sweet-Cordero.
Performers
Carmen Durán, Lourdes Luján.
Contents
Welcome to Tijuana
Carmen
Lourdes
We are promotoras
Labor claim
Carmen's new job
Lourdes tells a toxic tale
Labor board hearing
Labor rights
Chilpancingo Collective
Infrastructure
From boom to bust
Clean-up at Metales
Lead, labor, and the law
Future.
Bienvenidos a Tijuana
Carmen
Lourdes
Somos promotoras
Demanda laboral
Nuevo empleo
Lourdes cuenta un cuento tóxico
Audiencia laboral
Derecho laboral
Colectivo Chilpancingo
Infraestructura
Del auge al fracaso
Limpieza de Metales
Piomo, trabajo, y la ley
Futuro.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Industry
Employment
Environmental Pollution
Social Change
Genre/Form
Streaming video.
Documentaries and Factual Films
documentary film.
Documentary films
Historical films
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Also listed under
Independent Television Service, production company.
CineMamás Productions, production company.
Grupo Factor X.
Colectivo Chilpancingo.
Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres.
California Newsreel (Firm)
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