Browse Titles - 3 results
See details
Behind the Smile
produced by Alan Handel Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 48 mins
Hundreds of thousands of Thai young women leave their rural homes to work in the factories of Bangkok. They are the backbone of Thailand's economic success, yet are looked upon as almost less than human. Behind the Smile explores the lives and culture of these young women who live in crowded dormitories or shacks...
Sample
produced by Alan Handel Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1998), 48 mins
Description
Hundreds of thousands of Thai young women leave their rural homes to work in the factories of Bangkok. They are the backbone of Thailand's economic success, yet are looked upon as almost less than human. Behind the Smile explores the lives and culture of these young women who live in crowded dormitories or shacks with few possessions, homesick for their families. Yet the money they earn is so desperately needed by their families that they must st...
Hundreds of thousands of Thai young women leave their rural homes to work in the factories of Bangkok. They are the backbone of Thailand's economic success, yet are looked upon as almost less than human. Behind the Smile explores the lives and culture of these young women who live in crowded dormitories or shacks with few possessions, homesick for their families. Yet the money they earn is so desperately needed by their families that they must stay for years in their grim servitude. Through portraits of three women, we see the human cost of the country's rapid industrialization. Amoan, at nineteen, has been working in a textile factory for five years amidst the endless dust and never ending noise. As a good Buddhist daughter, she sends all her money home and spends nothing on herself. Laiad and her husband had to leave their children in the village. They rarely see them. Willaiwon after working in the same factory for fourteen years for minimum wage has become a union organizer. A whole generation of women has disappeared from the villages, changing traditions for ever. College Adult
Show more
Show less
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Alan Handel Productions
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Industry, Women's issues, Women's & Gender Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1998. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
×
See details
The Naked Option: A Last Resort
directed by Candace Schermerhorn, fl. 1996-2011; produced by Candace Schermerhorn, fl. 1996-2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011), 53 mins
The Naked Option: A last resort tells the remarkable stories of grassroots women in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta and the use of the threat of stripping naked in public, a sacred weapon, in their deadly struggle against environmental and cultural ruin by the world’s most powerful corporate giants.
Sample
directed by Candace Schermerhorn, fl. 1996-2011; produced by Candace Schermerhorn, fl. 1996-2011 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011), 53 mins
Description
The Naked Option: A last resort tells the remarkable stories of grassroots women in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta and the use of the threat of stripping naked in public, a sacred weapon, in their deadly struggle against environmental and cultural ruin by the world’s most powerful corporate giants.
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Candace Schermerhorn, fl. 1996-2011
Author / Creator
Candace Schermerhorn, fl. 1996-2011
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Oil mines and mining, African ethnic groups, Natural gas mining
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 by Candace Schemerhorn
×
See details
Sold for Nothing
directed by Irene Thyrri (Oslo, Oslo County: Nordic World, 2007), 42 mins
The story of two Thai women who lived in a wretched basement where they were forced to work as prostitutes until they managed to escape.
We found the two women back in Thailand where they are taking the traffickers to court. Now the two women, Ann and Am, have agreed to travel back to Europe to tell their horrify...
Sample
directed by Irene Thyrri (Oslo, Oslo County: Nordic World, 2007), 42 mins
Description
The story of two Thai women who lived in a wretched basement where they were forced to work as prostitutes until they managed to escape.
We found the two women back in Thailand where they are taking the traffickers to court. Now the two women, Ann and Am, have agreed to travel back to Europe to tell their horrifying story. It is also a psychological journey back to their many traumatic experiences.
Field of Study
Women's Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Irene Thyrri
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Nordic World
Topic / Theme
Crime, Sex industry, Women's & Gender Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Nordic World.
×
