MADE IN L.A. is documentary work-in-progress and will be screening a trailer as part of the Globalize This! program.
MADE IN L.A. intimately documents the experiences of Latina immigrants fighting for better working conditions in garment sweatshops in Los Angeles, and shows the impact of this struggle on their personal lives. The film, shot in veritè, tells the story of their three-year boycott campaign and lawsuit for unpaid wages against a fashionable women's clothing retailer.
MADE IN L.A. is a story of hope and transformation, and brings to light modern attitudes about the value of people and work,
globalization, women's rights, and recent immigrants' experiences in the United States.
Almudena Carracedo (Director/Producer)
Born in Madrid (Spain), Carracedo is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and scholar trained in film production in Paris and Madrid,
where she worked as a television director. In 2000 she came to UCLA as an international scholar to work on her doctoral dissertation on U.S./Mexico border documentaries. She has directed two short films and a short documentary on Tijuana as a border town. WELCOME: A DOCU-JOURNEY OF IMPRESSIONS was awarded a Sterling Award for best short doc at AFI/Discovery Channel's Silverdocs International Documentary Festival, and Special Mention of the Jury in Mediafest
International Film Festival (Spain). It has also screened at the La Habana New Latin America Film Festival, and at 16 other national and
international festivals. She is a recent fellow of NALIP's Latino Producers Academy.
Robert Bahar (Producer) Bahar is co-founder and coordinator of DOCULINK.ORG, a grassroots networking organization for documentary filmmakers with more than 800 members. He produced and directed the award winning documentary LAID TO WASTE, which aired on several public television stations and is currently in educational distribution, and he is currently finishing a new project, BREAKING CONVENTION, which looks at the struggle of political protesters in Los Angeles. He has worked for Academy-Award winning documentary filmmaker Tracy Seretean, and has line-produced and associate-produced several independent films including ITVS/PBS's DIARY OF A CITY PRIEST, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He recently served on the selection committee for the International Documentary AssociationÃ-s InFact Film Festival and holds an M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.
William Haugse (Editor) Haugse has been nominated for both an Oscar (HOOP DREAMS) and an Emmy (THE LAST DAYS OF KENNEDY AND KING). He has received the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award among many other prizes. He has worked with Orson Welles and John Cassavetes, and has edited films including the Universal feature CATTLE ANNIE AND LITTLE BRITCHES featuring Rod Steiger and Diane Lane and PAUL'S CASE starring Eric Roberts. Recent
work includes STEVIE (Lions Gate), directed by Steve James and AMERICAN COUP D'ETAT about the 2000 Florida presidential election for Robert Greenwald. He also recently finished editing SUNSET STORY, an ITVS/PBS documentary about a residence for retired radicals, and MEMOIRS OF A SECRET EMPIRE. a PBS program about feudal Japan.
madeinla@igc.org
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