Sports docos are almost always good fun to watch. Heart of the Game is a teen girl basketball doco set in Girl World but with a whole lot of exciting sports action. The coach at the centre of the story was wonderful, teaching the girls to approach the game as a pack of wolves, to encourage team work. It was pretty awesomely put together and a very fun movie.
Socially responsible film China Blue, followed one girl moving from her family's farm in Sichuan to the city to work in a jeans factory. It's a really close up investigation into the lives of the workers. Scary, scary stuff. The director was there, and I couldn't stay for the Q&A because I had to meet Lee, but the director was standing in the doorway as I was leaving and I said to him "That was just amazing" and he smiled and said "Thank you" so that was quite nice.
It didn't give me the same clear course of action that Inconvenient Truthor Black Gold did, which is disappointing. On the up side the film wasn't as depressing as it could have been, so that's something as well.
Finally nature doco White Planet was good, if not the best I've seen. It showed the changing of the seasons in the Arctic. Lots of lovely footage of polar bears, whales, narwhales and weird fish, but overall not as nice a package as say Deep Blue and Travelling Birds. Enjoyable movie, but not great. Least good out of the docos on Documentary Day.
I discovered something pretty neat today: Glassons stock garments that are made in New Zealand! I bought a black and grey striped scarf and a matchy long sleeve t, both made in Godzone. I think their armwarmers are made here too, as well as a fair amount of the striped tops they have in right now. I can feel happy about purchasing mass produced things that I know are made in a country with strict labour control.
PoF: stripey stripey
CO: documentaries