MAQUILAPOLIS |
[city of factories] |
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Environmental Health Coalition’s work is featured in MAQUILAPOLIS [city of factories], a film about women maquiladora workers in Tijuana. EHC promotoras Lourdes Luján and Yesenia Palomares are among the women in the film who tell the stories of their lives and their efforts to bring about social and environmental justice in their communities.
Filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre integrate the maquiladora workers’ own digital video recordings into this powerful film documenting the reality of globalization.
MAQUILAPOLIS aired nationally on PBS’s P.O.V. series on October 10, 2006.
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| AWARDS |
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| New York 2006 Tribeca Film Festival |
| Outstanding Achievement in Documentary |
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| Barcelona International Women's Film Festival |
| Audience Award for Best Documentary |
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"Making explicit the slogan 'knowledge equals power,'
Maquilapolis is the rare activist documentary that really
does empower the individual women at the heart of its story." |
– Jay Weissberg, Variety |
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"...the filmmakers set out to show life
as the workers see it, and they succeed,
with often appalling clarity." |
– Neil Genzlinger, New York Times |
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Promotoras featured in MAQUILAPOLIS [city of factories] are members of EHC affiliate, the Colectivo Chilpancingo Pro Justicia Ambiental. They are working to clean up Metales y Derivados, a toxic site containing 21,000 tons of hazardous waste located near a residential neighborhood in Tijuana. Read an update on the project's progress.
P.O.V. Film Update |
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VIDEO PORTRAITS |
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The Promotoras |
| The filmmakers of "Maquilapolis: City of Factories" conducted a series of video workshops in Tijuana, during which participating promotoras — factory workers who fight for workers' rights — learned to document their lives and the issues in their community. Watch several video diaries created during the workshop and some additional scenes from the film not shown in the broadcast version. |
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INTERVIEWS |
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Growing a Green Economy |
"Maquilapolis: City of Factories" makes the case that the well-being of factory workers in Tijuana is directly linked to a consumer's individual spending habits. Two experts in social investing explain how one educated shopper's dollar can wield clout and influence corporate practices.
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The Filmmakers |
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"We didn't want to tell a dark story of victimization because that's not what we saw. We saw people figuring things out on a daily basis and coming up with these really clever solutions."
—Vicky Funari
"The film deals with the costs of hyper-consumption and allows the viewers to understand where their goods are coming from, making a connection between themselves, their TV and the factory work in Mexico."
—Sergio De La Torre
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DELVE DEEPER |
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Globalization at the Crossroads documents the impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. A case study of the TV manufacturing industry illustrates how corporate globalization represents economic instability, poverty, worker injustice and environmental injustice for workers and families. EHC calls for NAFTA-style trade agreements to be rejected in favor of fair trade agreements that protect labor rights and the environment, defend democracy and build equality.
Globalization at the Crossroads Report
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