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.

The dying rooms china orphanage.

An orphanage program aimed at saving chinese babies from so called dying rooms is expanding next month in henan province due to the efforts of a fredericton woman who has adopted three special. Producers directors brian woods and kate blewett uncover the systematic neglect of abandoned babies in chinese state run orphanages. Dying rooms do not exist in china the foreign ministry spokesman chen jian has asserted. For foreigners to have a lasting effect on the situation in china s orphanages.

Staff members told the hong kong newspaper that 90 percent of the baby girls who arrived at the orphanage died there. 10 06 05 china is acting to boost the image of its social welfare institutions by responding to charges that children are abused neglected and allowed. 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. It was directed by kate blewett and brian woods and produced by lauderdale productions.

Directed by kate blewett brian woods. A follow up film return to the dying rooms was released in 1996. 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. It first aired on channel 4 in the united kingdom and in 1996 was aired on cinemax.

They find dark rooms where the weakest and least liked children are left to die. The human rights watch asia report is the fourth major account of abuse and death of children at chinese orphanages. In 1996 the film won a peabody award.