China Blue: Awards

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Awards and festivals (51 film festivals in 31 countries):





• Urban TV Madrid, Festival of Urban Ecology – Best Film

•  Columbus Int’l Film & Video Festival – Silver Chris Award

•  Vancouver film festival – Honorable Mention

• Cinemabiente Environmental Film Festival, Torino, Italy – Special mention

•  Hawaii International Film Festival –nominated for Best Documentary

•  Human Rights Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea – opening night film

•  Hong Kong International Film Festival
•  Thessaloniki (Greece) International Film Festival
•  San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
•  Full Frame (U.S.) Documentary Film Festival
•  Toronto Sprockets (children/youth) Film Festival
•  It’s all True International Documentary Film Festival, São Paolo, Brazil
•  Bermuda International Film Festival
•  Zagrebdox (Croatia) International Documentary Film Festival
•  One World (Prague) International Film Festival
•  Calgary Imagin Asian Film Festival
•  Ecuador International Documentary Film Festival
•  Warsaw Planete Doc Review, Poland
•  Crakow (Poland) International Film Festival
•  Jerusalem International Film Festival
•  New Zealand Film Festival
•  Dallas Video Festival
•  Films from the South (Oslo)
•  Discovery – Scotland’s International Film Festival for Children
•  Mill Valley Film Festival (U.S.)

•  Filmfest Hamburg
•  3-Continental Film festival (South Africa)
•  Cork (Ireland) International Film Festival
•  Nazareth International Film Festival (Israel)
•  Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
•  DocsLisboa (Portugal)
•  Tempo (Stockholm) documentary Film Festival
•  CPH:dox (Copenhagen documentary film festival)
•  Margaret Mead Film Festival (U.S.)
•  Beirut Docudays (Lebanon)
•  London Children’s Film Festival
•  Kathmandu (Nepal) Int’l Mountain Film Festival
•  Docpoint (Findland) film festival
•  Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
•  East Lansing Film Festival
•  Ueber Arbeiten (About Work) traveling festival, Germany
•  Reykjavik (Iceland) Documentary Workshop
•  INPUT ’07, Lugano, Switzerland
•  Guth Gafa (Ireland)
•   Loka Chitra Utsav, People’s Film Festival, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
•  The Tri-continental Int’l Film Festival (Mumbai and Delhi, India)

The Int’l Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) jury president had this to say about CHINA BLUE:

 A crucially important documentary for our times. Told from the inside, this is an account of modern slavery in a global market. It shames us all. Blue jeans are the iconic style item of the departed century and perhaps the next one too. The Jury wish to applaud the integrity, resourcefulness and courage of the film makers who took us on a shocking journey – one that confronts us with the real human costs of our easy choices and our bargain hunting.

Theatrical Release (digital):  U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Japan

Official DVD release in local language: U.S., France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Japan, Norway, Taiwan