China Blue

$8 General, $5 Members and Full-Time Students Advance tickets: (866) 468-3399 or or on site at the Skirball Admissions Desk L.A. premiere. Shot clandestinely, this powerful and poignant documentary offers a deep-access account of what both China and international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenage factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers' faraway villages, the film provides a rare, human glimpse at the cost of China's rapid transformation into a free market society. (2005, 88 min. Not rated.) A Q&A with director Micha X. Peled wi