Welcome to Independent Lens.
I'm Pete Schwaba, host of
PBS Wisconsin's Director's Cut.
Tonight, we bring you a film
The Hollywood Reporter calls a powerful indictment
of a traumatic social experiment
with the documentary "One Child Nation."
In 1979, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping
introduced a one-child policy
to stifle China's rapidly growing population.
It was just four years ago in 2015
that this measure to limit couples to one child, was overturned.
But the ripple effect and trauma
it caused families and those taken from them,
is still in its early throes.
"One Child Nation" exposes one brutal human rights violation after another
by a government against its own people,
including state sanctioned abductions,
forced sterilizations, abortions and abandoned newborns.
Co-Director Nanfu Wang draws from her family's
own personal stories and her experience as a new mother.
She and co-director Jialing Zhang interweave
first-hand accounts of both victims and transgressors
to tell the story of this ugly chapter in human civilization.
Wang has a host of awards for her previous work
which include a Peabody, numerous festival prizes
and Emmy nominations.
Tonight, she and Zhang tell a story
that China is doing everything in its power to erase.
"One Child Nation" starts now on PBS Wisconsin,
your home for independent film.