Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Screening of Red Dust, a documentary film by Karin Mak
A documentary providing a rare portrayal of women workers in China poisoned by cadmium while manufacturing batteries.
When:
April 7, 2009 7:00pm to January 1, 1999 12:00am
Where
The Pacific Basin Institute presents:
The Winning 2008 Summer Student Documentary
&
Screening of RED DUST, a documentary film by Karin Mak
Tuesday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Rose Hills Theatre
RED DUST (35 min), a documentary by Karin Mak, provides a rare portrayal of women workers in China poisoned by cadmium while manufacturing batteries. Karin T. Mak, Pomona '02, was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri to immigrants originally from Hong Kong. She spent several years on immigrant and workers’ rights campaigns in California. In 2003, she received the prestigious New Voices Fellowship to work with Sweatshop Watch, a Los Angeles-based non-profit educating the public about globalization. Mak’s films have screened in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, and Eugene, Oregon.
For more information, contact the PBI Archive: (909) 445-9386.
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