2011 Global Health Film Festival: Red Dust (short film), The Warriors of Qiugang (2011 Oscar nominee, short film) & The Lazarus Effect</b>(short film)

2011 Global Health Film Festival: Red Dust (short film), The Warriors of Qiugang (2011 Oscar nominee, short film) & The Lazarus Effect</b>(short film)

Friday, April 8, 2011 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall See map
63 High Street
New Haven, CT 6511

Red cadmium dust drifted freely in China’s nickel-cadmium battery factories owned and operated by GP BATTERIES (GP), one of the world’s top battery manufacturers. Ren, a migrant worker originally from Sichuan, suffers from frequent headaches and breathing difficulties. If untreated, the cadmium poisoning can lead to kidney failure, cancer, and even death. Red Dust tells an unexamined side of China’s economic development: the resistance, courage, and hope of workers battling occupational disease, demanding justice from the local government and global capital. This documentary is about women who are the engine of the global economy. Although the film takes place in China, the characters’ experiences are universal to workers on the margins around the world, where poverty, migration, and workplace hazards are common realities. The Warriors of Qiugang is a 39-minute documentary film that chronicles the story of the Chinese village of Qiugang (pop. 1,900 in ca. 2010), in the suburbs of Bengbu City in Anhui Province in central-eastern China. It tells how a group of Chinese villagers put an end to the poisoning of their land and water by three chemical plants, the worst being Jiucailuo Chemical. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well. Made in Zambia, The Lazarus Effect is a 30-minute film that tracks several people who were seriously ill but return to a healthier condition in a relatively short period of time after starting free antiretroviral drug therapy. HIV-positive patients and medical staff recount their experiences and the impact medication has made on their lives in their own words. They include Constance Mudenda, a mother whose children all died of AIDS, and who now works as a peer education supervisor at an AIDS clinic; Paul Nsangu, a young husband and father; Bwalya, an 11-year-old girl who at the beginning of the film looks like a child half her age, because of her disease; and Concillia Muhau, a young mother who recovered from the brink of death, and now also works as a peer counselor.

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The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale School of Public Health, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, YSPH Office of the Dean, YSPH Student Association, Yale School of Nursing
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