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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68906470 Title: Maquilapolis = City of factories Author: Vicky Funari; Sergio De La Torre; Darcy McKinnon; Annelise Wunderlich; Carmen Durán; Lourdes Luján; Independent Television Service; CineMamás Productions; Grupo Factor X; Colectivo Chilpancingo; Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres; California Newsreel (Firm) Publisher: [San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, ©2006. OCLC:68906470

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Maquilapolis = City of factories

Author:	Vicky Funari; Sergio De La Torre; Darcy McKinnon; Annelise Wunderlich; Carmen Durán; All authors
Publisher:	[San Francisco, CA] : California Newsreel, ©2006.
Edition/Format:	DVD video : SpanishView all editions and formats
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 Read more...
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Genre/Form:	Historical films Nonfiction films Documentary films
Named Person:	Carmen Durán; Lourdes Luján
Material Type:	Videorecording
Document Type:	Visual material
All Authors / Contributors:	Vicky Funari; Sergio De La Torre; Darcy McKinnon; Annelise Wunderlich; Carmen Durán; Lourdes Luján; Independent Television Service.; CineMamás Productions.; Grupo Factor X.; Colectivo Chilpancingo.; Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres.; California Newsreel (Firm) Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	68906470
Language Note:	In Spanish with English subtitles and some English with Spanish subtitles.
Notes:	"The women in this film developed and created its images, sounds and ideas in collaboration with the filmmakers."--Credits.
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.
Performer(s):	Carmen Durán, Lourdes Luján.
Description:	1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Details:	DVD.
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.
Other Titles:	City of factories
Responsibility:	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.
More information:	maquilapolis.com

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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.

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Maquilapolis City of Factories

(EMRO user published 2007-02-16 ) Very Good

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Maquilapolis is a provocative and emotionally stirring expose of working conditions in Mexicoâs maquiladoras, a word that has come to mean a new breed of factory that have become commonplace in Mexico. Foreign companies come for the tax breaks and cheap labor, and the Mexican government welcomes the inflow of capital. The conditions in these factories leave much to be desired. The workers are put in a quandary; the wages are relatively reasonable and few workers have complaints about the work itself. It is the exposure to contaminants that has called this predominantly female workforce to object and in some cases unify.

A group of these female workers were given video cameras to record daily life and document the consequences of exposure to lead and other toxins. The film does a superb job in demonstrating how globalization improves peopleâs lives on the surface but has an unfavorable underbelly, in the form of dangerous abandoned factories and waste sites, the lack of union representation, and the negligence of management in dealing with the problems of the workers.

Many documentaries of this sort emphasize the personal impacts of a problem and underemphasize the larger issues that shape these personal impacts. I have never seen a documentary that has done a better job of relating the personal to the global. The film deals with broader and philosophical questions in addition to examining the particular and peculiar. One interviewee asks the question, who is worse, âthe one who pays for the sin, or the one who sins for pay?â Maquilapolis simply cannot help but have a profound impact on the viewer.

My only criticism is the fairly frequent use of high frame rate filming as a visual stunt. In the assessment of this reviewer, it is fairly drawn out and visually unappealing. This, however, is a minor detail and does not diminish the overall power of this work.

I give an enthusiastic recommendation for Maquilapolis all audiences concerned with globalization. It should be counted among the elite works on the subject.