Sewing Sisters (2022)

Original title: 미싱타는 여자들 · Released 2022-01-20 · 108 min · Documentary · Rated All ages

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor Standards Act under the tutelage of Jeon Taeil. On September 9, 1977, they were imprisoned fighting against the government that closed labor classes, shouting, “The next Jeon Taeil will be a woman!” Now the middle-aged girls recall the memories of the life of female workers, social contempt, and stigma. Watching the sunrise in the East Sea, they admire, ‘How fair it is because everybody can see it.’ Sewing Sisters rewrites the history of maledominated Korean labor struggles in the 1970s with news interviews of female workers belonging to the Cheonggye Clothes Union.

Directed by

Kim Jung-young (김정영), Lee Hyuk-rae (이혁래)

Cinematography

Song Hyeon-jun

Editing

Lee Hyuk-rae (이혁래)

Music

Park Sung-do (박성도)

Produced by

Lee Hyuk-rae (이혁래), Kim Jung-young (김정영)

Cast

Companies

Flying Tiger Pictures, JINJIN Pictures, M-Line Distribution

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