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Title:
China's Stolen Children [digital video]
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file)
Abstract:
Ten years after the policy-changing and award-winning film, The Dying Rooms, the same team returns to a very different China where the infamous One Child Policy has had the horrific side effect of a boom in stolen children. With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter through lack of options, we are brought face to face with the crisis that such a stringent government policy has created among China's poorest people. Beautiful, haunting, deeply tragic, but impossible to ignore, this film takes us into the heart of modern China. A place where girl babies are being sold for 3,000-4,000 RMB (£200-270); detectives specialise in finding kidnapped children; and child traffickers are so relaxed about the trade they ply, that they allow the film-makers to covertly record them buying and selling tiny human lives. Tens of thousands of children are now kidnapped and traded on the black market whilst the State is more concerned with keeping the story quiet than tracing Chinas stolen children. Awards Winner - Broadcast Awards - Best Documentary - in 2008 Winner - BAFTA TV Awards - Current Affairs - in 2007 Winner - BAFTA Craft Awards - Breakthrough Talent - Jezza Neumann - in 2007 Winner - BAFTA Craft Awards - Director Factual - in 2007 Winner - RTS Journalism Awards - Current Affairs, International - in 2007 Winner - One World Media Awards - Children's Rights Awards - in 2007 Winner - MySpace Audience Award - Britdoc - in 2007 Nominee - Broadcasting Press Guild - Best Single documentary - in 2007 Nominee - BAFTA Craft Awards - Photography Factual - in 2007 Nominee - BAFTA Craft Awards - Editing Factual - in 2007Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley "They've done a remarkable job of highlighting China's insane bureaucracy - its one child policy...they've made, too, the most essential documentary of the year so far. I urge you - brace yourselves, and watch." - Alison Graham, Radio Times. "This really is an extraordinary doc which reveals some of the realities behind China's outwardly booming economy." - Time Out.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Undetermined
Additional Language:
In English
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Electronic Access:
Access immediately on Kanopy
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