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Release Date: March 24, 2006 (NY)
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Director: David Redmon
Screenwriter: David Redmon
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Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: MardisGrasMadeinChina
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Plot Summary: First-time director David Redmon poignantly exposes the inequities of globalization by juxtaposing American excess and consumer ignorance against the harsh life of the Chinese factory worker. He takes us to the Tai Kuen Bead Factory in China where young laborers make the beads that are sold cheaply at the annual celebration in New Orleans. Earning a mere $13 a week, the laborers work 18-hour days and live commune-style on the factory's premises. He films them painstakingly making the beads, socializing with their fellow workers on their few hours off and talking about the lives they left behind to earn money for themselves and their families. Redmon then takes his camera to New Orleans and shows Mardi Gras revelers exactly where the cheap beads they have bought and flung at bare-breasted women have originated. Some of the party-goers are truly disturbed by what they are shown but most carry on celebrating. After Redmon shows the Chinese laborers footage of the Mardi Gras festivities, they are surprised to find that the product of their hard work is used for behavior they find embarrassing, and that the beads are then discarded in the gutter at the end of the day.

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