The Dying Rooms China Orphanage

In 1996 the film won a peabody award.

The dying rooms china orphanage.

Documentary about a crew going from one orphanage to another in china to investigate these so called dying rooms where the orphanage workers leave baby girls to die. But they do exist. They find dark rooms where the weakest and least liked children are left to die. Directed by kate blewett brian woods.

It was directed by kate blewett and brian woods and produced by lauderdale productions. A follow up film return to the dying rooms was released in 1996. The human rights watch asia report is the fourth major account of abuse and death of children at chinese orphanages. Staff members told the hong kong newspaper that 90 percent of the baby girls who arrived at the orphanage died there.

In 1993 the south china morning post published photos and an account of dying. These are known as the dying rooms china s one child policy has created a race where most families desire boys and therefore parents are forced to abandon their babies. As early as 1993 the south china morning post published photos and an account of dying rooms at an orphanage in nanning in guangxi province. Dying rooms do not exist in china the foreign ministry spokesman chen jian has asserted.

Producers directors brian woods and kate blewett uncover the systematic neglect of abandoned babies in chinese state run orphanages. For foreigners to have a lasting effect on the situation in china s orphanages. The dying rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about chinese state orphanages.