Check out Micha X. Peled’s award-winning doc China Blue, screening tonight at 9:30pm as a part of the Margaret Mead film festival at the Museum of Natural History. Peled managed to get inside a world that’s rarely, if ever, been infiltrated: China’s sweat shops. The film, which I saw last year, tells the story of our t-shirts and jeans through the prism of the young factory girls making them, the pressures they face from their families to keep sewing, and why it’s all even more complicated and devastating then we know.

Peled’s a master of telling political stories through the eyes of individuals. His first film, Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin?, examined his mother’s relationship with the land she fled, and the filmmaker’s complex connection both with his mother and his own Jewish identity. And his Inside God’s Bunker tells the story the West Bank through the eyes of extremist Jewish settlers in the months leading up to the 1994 massacre in Hebron.

But right here, right now, if you want a rare view into the globalization story we read about a lot but never see from the truly personal POV, get your ass to China Blue.