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Micha X. Peled
Director of 'China Blue'

Micha X. Peled’s first professional film, ‘Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin’ was a first-person family story, produced for German television (WDR and BR). Winning awards on both sides of the Atlantic, Micha left his job to become a fulltime filmmaker and never looked back. His next two films were Inside God's Bunker and You, Me, Jerusalem. These films got wide distribution, airing on television in 14 countries in Europe, Australia, U.S. and Japan, establishing Peled’s international career. In 2000, Peled completed ‘Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town’. This PBS film won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the CINE Golden Eagle. It was nominated for the IDA (International documentary Association) Distinguished Achievement Pare Lorenz Award. Conceived as a prequel to the previous film, Peled’s first feature doc, China Blue, looks at how the cheap goods we consume are made. The film opened at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Amnesty Human Rights award at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA).

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