Maquilapolis: City of Factories
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Maquilápolis [city of factories] is a 2006 documentary
filmed in Tijuana, Baja California, about the factories on the U.S.-Mexican border in which workers are paid $11 a day to work in manufacturing plants that provide few bathroom breaks and dangerous working conditions.
Maquilápolis was directed by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
and premiered on PBS
as part of its Point of View
series in 2006.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
filmed in Tijuana, Baja California, about the factories on the U.S.-Mexican border in which workers are paid $11 a day to work in manufacturing plants that provide few bathroom breaks and dangerous working conditions.
Maquilápolis was directed by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre
Sergio De La Torre
Sergio De La Torre is a Mexican photographer, filmmaker and performance artist who teaches photography and film at the University of San Francisco. De La Torre is originally from the Tijuana/San Diego border and migrated to San Francisco...
and premiered on PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
as part of its Point of View
P.O.V.
POV is a Public Broadcasting Service Public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is a cinema term for "point of view"....
series in 2006.
External links
- Official Site
- P.O.V. Maquilapolis - PBS's site dedicated to the film