Lynn Zhang, a Chinese filmmaker, received a $5,000 award for her project Who Pays the Price

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Who Pays the Price exposes the human costs of global outsourcing, focusing on China’s electronics suppliers. With unprecedented access and undercover footage, this feature-length film offers a rare, intimate glimpse into the lives of the young people who are paying with their health and lives making the devices we can’t live without. Chemically poisoned while producing for major electronic brands including Apple and Dell, the film depicts the hospitalized teens struggling for their health while the factories collude with corrupt officials to deny responsibility. Some lose their battles for health and justice, while others turn the pain of their illness into activism.

Through their stories, the documentary puts a human face behind our every-day high-tech necessities, and aims to push for a change in global brands social responsibilities, and make us rethink the values of green high tech.