{"id":18985,"date":"2020-06-05T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/04\/these-women-arent-victims-director-turns-the-spotlight-on-garment-workers"},"modified":"2020-06-05T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:09:11","slug":"these-women-arent-victims-director-turns-the-spotlight-on-garment-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18985","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;These women aren&rsquo;t victims&#8217;: director turns the spotlight on garment workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on true stories, Rubaiyat Hossain\u2019s Made in Bangladesh challenges stereotypes while revealing the relentless pressure of fashion\u2019s supply chain<\/p>\n<p>Rubaiyat Hossain\u2019s latest film, Made in Bangladesh, opens with a scene of pure, visceral panic: young garment workers trapped in a burning factory.&nbsp;Alarms blare, women scream and smoke fills the stairwells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/08\/bangladesh-factory-fires-fashion-latest-crisis\">fire<\/a> or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/18\/rana-plaza-collapse-murder-charges-garment-factory\">building collapse<\/a> is every garment worker\u2019s greatest fear,\u201d says Hossain.&nbsp;When filming the scene, the women seen desperately running for their lives didn\u2019t need much direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/04\/these-women-arent-victims-director-turns-the-spotlight-on-garment-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on true stories, Rubaiyat Hossain\u2019s Made in Bangladesh challenges stereotypes while revealing the relentless pressure of fashion\u2019s supply chainRubaiyat Hossain\u2019s latest film, Made in Bangladesh, opens with a scene of pure, visceral panic: young g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,71,576,833,69,59,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-culture","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-film","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18987,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}