There’s a famous bible verse that states, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” This is what the viewer of the documentary “Made In Ethiopia,” currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, will perhaps think as they observe the unfolding impact of a corporate foreign entity on a small farming community in Ethiopia. The documentary feature debut of Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan chronicles the lives of Motto, an amiable and ambitious Chinese deputy director of Eastern Industry Park, an enormous manufacturing park in the Ethiopian town of Dukem; her diverse employees; and the local inhabitants, mostly small farmers from whom both labor and land are extracted at bargain basement prices. The action begins as Eastern Industry Park tries to move into “Phase II” of the already sprawling factory’s development—an additional 400 acres of factory space.
The action is very straightforward: interviews with floor workers who are all Ethiopian, their families, Motto herself, and the supervisors….
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