The focus of this film is on teenage Jasmine Li, who leaves her Sichuan village in China for a far-away blue jeans factory. This is a look at what international retail companies don't want us to see - how the clothes we buy are actually made.

Screened in its Marin Premiere, Bitter Seeds focuses on the tragedy of impoverished cotton farmers in central India. The film follows a young woman, Manjusha Amberwar, studying to be a journalist so she can help stop a trend that claimed her father and threatens her uncle.