ILFF10/2006 "MAQUILÁPOLIS [City of Factories]" (Feature Docu

dir. Sergio De La Torre, Vicky Funari, 2006, Mexico / USA, 68 min.

Screening at 10th International Latino Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Area on
11/14/2006 @ 6:00 PM - @ San José State University (San Jose)


Carmen works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras, the multinational factories that come to Mexico for its cheap labor. After making television components all night, Carmen goes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. As a single mother, she earns six dollars a day and suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her exposure to toxic chemicals. But, Carmen's optimism and strong will keep her looking for ways to organize change. In Maquilapolis, Carmen and her friends reach beyond their daily struggle for survival, using video cameras to tell their own stories while confronting labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos. When this small group of women takes on the impossible task of forcing the Mexican government to clean up a nearby polluted factory, the women find hope in a better future.

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[crzybordr86]

WHAT THE FK IS THE NAME OF THIS FIRST SONG? ILL PAY 30 PESOS FOR ANSWER, THANK U.

[crit1227]

This is so good. I remember watching this on Ondemand

[snevetsznarf1978]

Acabo de ver esto en una clase. En las palabras de Chomsky, la unica verdad en North american trade agreement, es la parte que dice "norteamerica." Americanos incautos....

[daleyander2468]

I hope it is not in juarez!!

[vazquez408]

Muy bien hecho paisanas...la union hace la fuerza y tenemos que luchar por nuestros derechos....

[EidolonUno]

thanks for the video, tengo ese documental de las maquiladoras y es es una cosa muy valiosa y bien hecha. lo pueden bajar de la pagina de nodo 50.

[wereallcelebsnow]

so when these companies, whos ceo is an ancestor of those criminals, pack up and leave to mexico for cheaper wages and you lose your job to some mexican who's more qualified and works harder, i call it chickens coming home to roost, bitch.

[wereallcelebsnow]

so whats your point, dick? people should just stfu and be happy with subhuman working conditions to appease the all-mighty, all-powerful corporations? profit over people huh? how about fuck you and fuck the corporations. workers have had to fight for their rights throughout the history of industry. whether they were 'american', chinese or mexican. oh and black too. i say vote with a bullet, not the dollar. in the meantime, i gladly welcome a new stone age.

[galindo20014]

es un asco ver como por ser mujer piensen que eres menos. antes se decia que solo los hombres podian desempeñar trabajos dificiles, por ejemplo policia, bombero, pilotos, etc. Que bien se siente que mujeres como las que aparecen en el video hayan por fin demostrado la injusticia que se vive en las fabricas, se juegan su salud por unos cuantos billetes que ni para comer les ayuda. buen documental...

[kelim92]

Cheaper labor where? The whole world is already cheap labor save for a few rich nations.