Maquilapolis
Subtitle: City of factories
By: ITVS ; a CineMamas 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
Contributors: Duran, Carmen; Lujan, Lourdes; Independent Television Service; CineMamas Productions; Grupo Factor X.; Colectivo Chilpancingo; Promotoras por los Derechos de las Mujeres; California Newsreel (Firm)
Series: GLS 410 (NU course)
Publisher: California Newsreel
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Vallejo, CA]
Language: spa; eng
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Women offshore assembly industry workers; Social conditions; Women in development; Manufacturing industries; Offshore assembly industry; Employees; Labor unions
Other titles: City of factories
Description: Explores the environmental devastation and urban chaos of Tijuana's assembly factories and the female laborers who have organized themselves for social action. Maquiladora workers 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, environmental devastation and urban chaos -- life on the frontier of the global economy. Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory. Incorporates video diaries by the women.
Notes: "The women in this film developed and created its images, sounds and ideas in collaboration with the filmmakers."--Credits.

Originally released as a documentary in 2006.

Editor, Vicky Funari ; original score, Pauline Oliveros with Bostich and Fussible Nortec Collective, and John Blue ; 16 mm cinematography, Daniel Gorrell, Sophia Constantinou.

Carmen Duran, Lourdes Lujan.

DVD ; stereo.

In English and Spanish; chiefly Spanish dialogue with English subtitles; some English dialogue with Spanish subtitles and English closed-captioning.