Directors: Heather White and Lynn Zhang
Production Company: Cadmium and Cotton
Description of Film: Winner of seven international awards including top prizes in Paris, Valencia Spain, Sardinia Italy and sold out Lincoln Center and IFC premieres in New York , COMPLICIT has been an Official Selection in over 30 film festivals worldwide.
Shot below the radar for three years in China in the midst of an unprecedented human rights crackdown, the film is a character-driven, inspiring tale of young activists facing huge odds in their effort to reform China's toxic smartphone factories.
Yi Yeting confronts insurmountable challenges, battling to survive occupational leukemia, while helping 39 teenagers - workers from a smartphone factory in a similar situation, poisoned by widely used solvents benzene and n-hexane banned in the West for over 40 years.
Connecting via the internet Yi brings his fight against benzene - from his hospital room, to Silicon Valley and the international stage, finally persuading Apple to ban benzene.
The audience takes an 8000-mile journey to the lush Chinese countryside to the world’s mega-sized factory floors, revealing the situations under which China’s youth population has shifted by the millions in search of better lives.
Ultimately an inspiring tale, COMPLICIT shows when courage and commitment meet social media there's no limit to what one can accomplish - even in authoritarian China.
Runtime: 58
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