Maquilapolis = City of factories /

Maquilapolis = City of factories /

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Imprint:	[San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, [2006] ©2006
Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (68 min.)) : sound, color
Language:	Spanish English
Subject:	Durán, Carmen. Luján, Lourdes. Durán, Carmen Industries -- Mexico. Women -- Employment -- Mexico. Pollution -- Mexico. Social change -- Mexico. Women offshore assembly industry workers -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) -- Social conditions. Women in development -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) Offshore assembly industry -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) Offshore assembly industry -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) Industries. Employment (Economic theory) Pollution. Social change. Industry Employment Environmental Pollution Social Change Women, Working Industries Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects Offshore assembly industry -- Employees -- Labor unions Offshore assembly industry -- Environmental aspects Pollution Social change Social conditions Women -- Employment Women in development Women offshore assembly industry workers -- Social conditions Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Social conditions. Mexico Mexico Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California) Streaming video. Documentaries and Factual Films documentary film. Documentary films Historical films Documentary films. Feature films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13610313

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Varying Form of Title:	City of factories
Other authors / contributors:	Funari, Vicky, producer, director. De La Torre, Sergio, producer, director. McKinnon, Darcy, producer. Wunderlich, Annelise, producer. Durán, Carmen, narrator. Luján, Lourdes, narrator. Independent Television Service, production company. CineMamás Productions, production company. Grupo Factor X. Colectivo Chilpancingo. Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres. California Newsreel (Firm)
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	data file
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. Carmen Durán, Lourdes Luján. In Spanish with English subtitles and some English with Spanish subtitles. Videodisc (DVD) version record.
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.
Awards:	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
Other form:	DVD version: Maquilapolis. San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2006]

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Item Description:	Title from title frames. "The women in this film developed and created its images, sounds and ideas in collaboration with the filmmakers."--Credits
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (68 min.)) : sound, color 010822
Playing Time:	01:08:22
Awards:	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
Production 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.