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“COMPLICIT” Film Q&A with Co-Director Heather White and EHT Executive Director Theodora Scarato

May 19, 2021

Complicit Film Poster

The Jackson Hole Environmental Health Trust Film Series

Watch the Q and A with COMPLICIT Co-Director Healther White below.

 

Watch the video “Modern Slavery” as discussed in the Q and A here.

This documentary follows the intimate journey of Chinese migrant worker Yi Yeting, a benzene-poisoned victim-turned-activist fighting work-induced leukemia, who takes on the global electronics industry in a fight against dangerous workplace conditions.  

Learn more about the film here. Vimeo clips and more here.   Watch on Vimeo on Demand here 

Take Action

Get involved. Companies need to hear from us and we must demand better. 

  • Green America has campaigns running on cell phone worker safety. 
  • China Labor is focused on worker safety in China. 
  • The Electronics TakeBack Coalition (ETBC) promotes green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry. Their goal is to protect the health and well being of electronics users, workers, and the communities where electronics are produced and discarded by requiring consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of their products, through effective public policy requirements or enforceable agreements.

Please learn more about the film at  http://www.complicitfilm.org

About COMPLICIT

Yi Yeting’s brave fight to expose the dangers from cell phone manufacturing in China’s largest factory is documented by Heather White in the film “COMPLICIT.” In this lush and moving documentary, White and co-director Lynn Zhang trace the journey by millions of young people from China’s farmlands to its electronics factory floors. The search for a better life is elusive to many of these workers, who must cope with work-related illnesses in a country without medical benefits or worker’s compensation.
“COMPLICIT” details dozens of stories of young workers who became ill at their jobs, the Chinese government’s shuttering of worker advocacy offices, and the growing movement outside China to protect exposed workers. It documents the government’s efforts to isolate protagonist Yi as he reveals the truth behind the dangers that lie in the production of the world’s computers and cell phones.

First released in 2017, “COMPLICIT” has been screened at 40 film festivals and has won nine international festival awards. Shortly after the documentary’s release, Apple agreed to ban the use of benzene and n-hexane in its cellular phone production, but do these factories continue to ignore Chinese regulations, which are rarely enforced?

Please learn more about the film at  http://www.complicitfilm.org

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