Filmmakers Almenda Carracedo and Robert Bahar talk about their film "Made in L.A." Los Angeles is now the country's center for apparel manufacturing, but many of its factories bear an eerie resemblance to New York's early 20th Century sweatshops. MADE IN L.A. follows the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their struggle for self-empowerment as they wage a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.
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Filmmakers Almenda Carracedo and Robert Bahar talk about their film "Made in L.A." Los Angeles is now the country's center for apparel manufacturing, but many of its factories bear an eerie resemblance to New York's early 20th Century sweatshops. MADE IN L.A. follows the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their struggle for self-empowerment as they wage a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.
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Q: So Robert, describe this film for someone who hasn't seen it?
BAHAR: Well MADE IN L.A. is a film that tells a story of three women who we feel are very courageous. Three women who are Latina immigrants, who are working in garment factories in Los Angeles. And the film follows them as they got involved in a boycott campaign against a...a clothing retailer that sold the clothes that they were sewing. And the film follows them over a period of three years, as the boycott campaign continues and as there's a lawsuit. And in that process you see each of the women change in different ways. And as we follow the story we feel that it's a film that's not just about their struggle and their journey, but that their struggle as garment workers also represents the struggles of immigrant workers in other areas, in day labor, in agricultural work and other people who are fighting for their...
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Suggested Intro: This week P.O.V.'s director of programming and production Chris White talks with filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar. White caught up with Carracedo and Bahar to talk about MADE IN L.A., a feature-length documentary film that follows the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.'s garment factories and their struggle for self-empowerment as they wage a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.
Suggested Intro: This week P.O.V.'s director of programming and production Chris White talks with filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar about their film, MADE IN L.A.. This intimate film offers a rare and poignant glimpse into this other California where immigrants in many industries toil long hours for sub-minimum wages, fighting for an opportunity in a new country.
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interview, and read responses to the film by Governor Bill Richardson, immigration activist Dolores Huerta, and others working on immigration and sweatshop reform issues.
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- Producers Carracedo and Bahar (17_madeinla.jpg)
- Garment worker Lupe Hernandez (04_madeinla.jpg)
- Protesting workers (08_madeinla.jpg)
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