Made in L.A.
Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. In intimate verité style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity and the courage it takes to find your voice.
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Almudena Carracedo is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and scholar whose film, “Welcome. A Docu-Journey of impressions” won the Sterling Award for Short Subject at Silverdocs in 2003. Trained in film production in Madrid and Paris, Almudena worked as a television director in Spain before coming to the U.S. to work on her doctoral dissertation on U.S./Mexico border documentaries at UCLA. She is a recent fellow of NALIP's Latino Producers Academy.
Robert Bahar is the co-founder and coordinator of doculink.org, a grassroots networking organization for documentary filmmakers, and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association. He is a graduate of Drexel University where he produced and directed the award-winning documentary Laid to Waste with George McCollough about toxic waste dumping in Chester, PA. He holds an M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.
Fighting for Our Schools is a buoyant profile of the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU), a city-wide organization of public high school students who advocate on behalf of all students in policy discussions about public education. Their video highlights some of the most important campaigns of the student-led group.