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.

Staff members told the hong kong newspaper that 90 percent of the baby girls who arrived at the orphanage died there. It was directed by kate blewett and brian woods and produced by lauderdale productions. In 1993 the south china morning post published photos and an account of dying. 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. It first aired on channel 4 in the united kingdom and in 1996 was aired on cinemax. Dying rooms do not exist in china the foreign ministry spokesman chen jian has asserted. 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.

They find dark rooms where the weakest and least liked children are left to die. Directed by kate blewett brian woods. 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. A follow up film return to the dying rooms was released in 1996.

Producers directors brian woods and kate blewett uncover the systematic neglect of abandoned babies in chinese state run orphanages. 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. The dying rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about chinese state orphanages.