Here are shots from Children, my black & white still-image piece on U.S. clothing corporations and foreign child labor. For the pictures of the children, I took shots of pages from the juvenile book Child Slavery in Modern Times by Shirlee Newman. The other shots were taken at local shopping centers. This film was selected to be featured at the first ever New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival sponsored by the Human Rights Network in May 2005 as well as the Amnesty International Film Festival 2004 tour in West Hollywood and Laramie, WY.
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"Depicting human rights issues through the medium of film has never been more prevalent. Visual presentation is increasingly the channel of mass communication especially for young people." - Carol Nelson and Boris van Beusekom, executive directors of New Zealand Human Rights Film Festival, Read entire statement
"CHILDREN is a concise, poetic look at the reality of how everyday fashions are made. Using photographs and frank narration, Le Sheng Liu confronts the exploitation of child labor by American clothing companies." - Amnesty International
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