MCC’s Free International Film Series Continues with ‘China Blue’

Middlesex Community College’s 2013-14 International Film Series continues with a screening of the celebrated documentary “China Blue” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in MCC’s Federal Building Assembly Room, 50 Kearney Square, on the Lowell campus. Free and open to the public, the program concludes with a post-screening discussion with Middlesex faculty at 8 p.m.

Shot clandestinely in China, this film is a deep-access account of what China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see: How the clothes we buy are actually made.

Produced and directed by Micha X. Peled, “China Blue” (http://teddybearfilms.com/2011/09/01/china-blue) takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where two teen-age girls are trying to survive the harsh working environment. When the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his young employees to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.

MCC’s 2013-14 International Film Series is supported, in part, by a generous grant from the MCC Foundation.

For more information, contact MCC Professor of Art Jan Arabas at 781-280-3784 or arabasj@middlesex.mass.edu

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