An investigative story of how the Apple and Samsung cell phones we use are being made by exploited workers, causing terminal illness and death in China. Our filmmakers, Heather White and Jialing Zhang, have gone undercover and risked their own health to expose the human cost of how we now communicate.
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The film begins with the funeral of a Foxconn worker who's mother had written to Apple asking for help while he was dying in the hospital of leukaemia. She never received a reply. The film opens with his funeral.
As a result the police were sent out to find my co-director to try to get the footage. They traveled 500 miles looking for her but fortunately our main character and hero of our film YiYeting has protected her identity.
Here's the link to the article about Yi Long featured in our film: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2772228/Worker-iPhone-factory-dies-cancer-days-mother-begged-Apple-help.html
Worker from iPhone factory dies of cancer - days after mother begged Apple for help: Young Chinese man is the sixth to die at the complex in southern China
- Yi Long, 25, fell ill with leukaemia while working at Apple iPhone factory
- He is the sixth worker to die of the disease at the complex in China
- His parents said they had been refused financial help by the factory
- Mother Cheng Fuying issued an appeal to Apple CEO Tim Cook 14 days ago
- Mr Long died on Friday in rural Hunan province and was buried yesterday
- At least 13 workers at the factory have contracted leukaemia since 2010
