{"product_id":"mardi-gras-made-in-china","title":"Mardi Gras: Made in China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0133\/2562\/files\/carn.png?v=1768588754\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: start;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveeye.org\/pages\/host-a-screening\" title=\"Community Screenings Form\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 6px; float: start;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0133\/2562\/files\/WebsiteButton_3bb924f4-b7af-47a7-98d9-8c2765d50eb0_480x480.jpg?v=1718641924\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDirected by: \u003c\/strong\u003eD. Redmon \u0026amp; A. Sabin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReleased:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2026 (educational)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear of Production:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2009\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRunning Time: \u003c\/strong\u003e72 min\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubtitle Options:\u003c\/strong\u003e English Closed Captions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSubjects: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAmerican Studies, Asian Studies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6kCxvbBsv00?si=9VKD1NvFiZGCP3dm\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of twenty-one national and international awards, \u003cb\u003eMardi Gras: Made in China\u003c\/b\u003e follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China – where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, \u003cb\u003eMardi Gras: Made in China\u003c\/b\u003e is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly affect the people who both make and consume them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAccolades\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSundance Film Festival - Nominated for the Grand Jury Award\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinner of 21 awards\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheatrically Released in the U.S.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurated by the Sundance Channel as one of the “Classical Festival Moments”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Critics Pick by Stephen Holden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul id=\"reviewList\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Punchy documentary critique of globalization looks at the conditions in a factory in the Chinese city of Fuzhou where young workers make the beads showered onto revelers in New Orleans in exchange for baring their breasts at Mardi Gras.” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/24\/movies\/24mard.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Cleverly juxtaposes the apex of American bacchanalian excess with the sweatshop-like conditions that facilitate the fun.” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-mardi11aug11,0,1265942.story\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“This is one of the best films I know about real (as opposed to op-ed) globalization. Please welcome it.” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20060410\/klawans\/2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                         \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the filmmakers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin together produce, direct, photograph and edit critically acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Telluride, Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, Telluride, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, CBC, DR, ARTE, and NHK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir body of work includes Kim’s Video whereby they play with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres as co-director David Redmon sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily. Four “animal ethnography” films based in the world of donkeys and funded by the Leverhulme Trust: \u003cem\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \u003cem\u003eDo Donkeys Act?\u003c\/em\u003e(2017), \u003cem\u003eChoreography\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and \u003cem\u003eHerd\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); two dream\/memory cinema poems Sentient 1 \u0026amp; 2 (2015\/2016); a 6 minute snowbound ballet mécanique, \u003cem\u003eNeige\u003c\/em\u003e (2016); a suite of U.S. post-industrialization themed films set inside three interconnected factories on the coast of Prospect Harbor, Maine: \u003cem\u003eDowneast\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eNight Labor\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eKingdom of Animal\u003c\/em\u003e(2012); a feature documentary about the labyrinthine world of teenage modeling in which a New York based scout recruits Siberian teenagers to the Tokyo model market \u003cem\u003eGirl Model\u003c\/em\u003e (2011); a film linking China and New Orleans through globalized manufacturing of cheap throwaway goods for American leisure pursuit, \u003cem\u003eMardi Gras: Made in China\u003c\/em\u003e (2005) and two “carnivalesque” character driven films set in Louisiana \u003cem\u003eKamp Katrina\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eInvisible Girlfriend\u003c\/em\u003e (2009). 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