The secret life of your clothes / Bullfrog Films presents ; produced & directed by Andy Wells ; Firecrest Films ; produced for BBC.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Adepitan, Ade, presenter.

Wells, Andy (Film director), film director, film producer.

Bullfrog Films.

Firecrest Films.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Used clothing industry.

Used clothing industry--Ghana.

Clothing trade--Ghana.

Clothing trade.

Textile industry--Ghana.

Textile industry.

Ghana.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (59 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2016]

Language Note:

In English and other undetermined languages with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

In this revealing film, charismatic paralympian Ade Adepitan tells the fascinating story of the afterlife of our clothes. He follows the trail to Ghana, the biggest importer of our castoffs where thousands of tons of our old clothes arrive every week. Ade meets the people who make a living from our old clothes, from wholesalers and markets traders to the importers raking in more than the average yearly wage in a single day!

Participant:

Presented by Ade Adepitan.

Credits:

Camera, Justin Evans, Sam Al-Kadi, Steve Standen ; film editor, Christopher Boyd.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally broadcast as an episode of the television series, This World and produced by: Firecrest Films, ©2014.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 12, 2016).

Publisher Number:

bf-slife Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.