Maquilapolis = City of factories

Maquilapolis = City of factories /

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...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Corporate Authors: Grupo Factor X., Colectivo Chilpancingo, Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres, California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors: Funari, Vicky (Producer, Director), De La Torre, Sergio (Producer, Director), McKinnon, Darcy (Producer), Wunderlich, Annelise (Producer), Durán, Carmen (Narrator), Luján, Lourdes (Narrator)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:Spanish
English
Published: [San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, 2006
Subjects:
Durán, Carmen.
Luján, Lourdes.
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
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) > Social conditions.
Mexico
Streaming video.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Description
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.
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
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.
Access:Access restricted to University of Guelph faculty, students and staff.
Participant or Performer:Carmen Durán, Lourdes Luján.
Language:In Spanish with English subtitles and some English with Spanish subtitles.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Videodisc (DVD) version record.

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