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.

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 compound s dozen imposing buildings house about 1 000 minors. It was directed by kate blewett and brian woods and produced by lauderdale productions. Each hopes a family will one day arrive to.

Dying rooms 1 in 1995 the dying rooms was produced by true vison documentaries. Staff members told the hong kong newspaper that 90 percent of the baby girls who arrived at the orphanage died there. A follow up film return to the dying room s 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.

The dying rooms is a 1995 television documentary film about chinese state orphanages. 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. There is mounting evidence that the practice of letting unwanted children die of starvation and neglect is not limited to shanghai but is found in orphanages nationwide. Directed by kate blewett brian woods.