The Dying Rooms China Orphanage

Producers directors brian woods and kate blewett uncover the systematic neglect of abandoned babies in chinese state run orphanages.

The dying rooms china orphanage.

They find dark rooms where the weakest and least liked children are left to die. Staff members told the hong kong newspaper that 90 percent of the baby girls who arrived at the orphanage died there. It first aired on channel 4 in the united kingdom and in 1996 was aired on cinemax. In 1996 the film won a peabody award.

Directed by kate blewett brian woods. 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. But they do exist. The dying rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about chinese state orphanages.

Dying rooms do not exist in china the foreign ministry spokesman chen jian has asserted. A follow up film return to the dying rooms was released in 1996. It was directed by kate blewett and brian woods and produced by lauderdale productions. The human rights watch asia report is the fourth major account of abuse and death of children at chinese orphanages.

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. In 1993 the south china morning post published photos and an account of dying. 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.