Micha Peled

Peled was born and raised in Israel from where he moved to US by hitchhiking.{{Cite web|last=Gordon|first=Sarah|title=Micah Peled - Logan Nonfiction Program|url=https://logannonfiction.org/projects/micah-peled/|access-date=2021-06-12|website=|language=en-US}} In the US, he became a trader of imported hammocks and sheepskin jackets. He consequently explored the job of a prison guard and then became a freelance journalist. Peled then got actively involved in the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and was one of its directors. He became the executive director of the organization called Media Alliance, a media watchdog agency based in San Francisco. During this time, he directed his first television documentary.{{Cite web|title=About {{!}} Teddy Bear Films|url=https://teddybearfilms.com/about/|access-date=2021-06-13}}

Soon he directed his first film - Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin? in 1993. After his first film, Peled left his full time job and became a film maker. He directed his second film Inside God's Bunker next year and then You, Me, Jerusalem in 1995.{{Cite web|title=UNAFF 2013: Films: Bitter Seeds|url=http://www.unaff.org/2013/f_bitter.html|access-date=2021-06-12|website=www.unaff.org}} His first three films are themed on different conflicts and situations related to contemporary Jewish diaspora and Jewish population in Israel. In 1999, he founded Teddy Bear Films, a non-profit organization for promoting film making and story telling art.

Peled directed Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town in 2001 which is the first film in his Globalization Trilogy. The film is based on the real situation at Ashland, Virginia, US where a dramatic situation evolved as Walmart announced to build its megastore in the town. The film was premiered in South by Southwest Film Festival in 2001 and won CINE Golden Eagle Awards and Golden Gate award in San Francisco International Film Festival.{{Cite web|title=Awards {{!}} ITVS|url=https://itvs.org/about/awards|access-date=2021-06-12|website=itvs.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Micha X. Peled {{!}} dafilms.com|url=https://dafilms.com/director/8640-micha-x-peled|access-date=2021-06-12|website=dafilms.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2005-07-06|title=CN&R • Business • Business • When Wal-Mart comes to town • May 31, 2001|url=https://www.newsreview.com/chico/content/when-wal-mart-comes-to-town/4277/|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Chico News & Review|language=en}} His second film in the Globalization Trilogy series is China Blue in 2005. The film focuses on the sweatshop conditions in factories in China and the growing importance of China as an exporting country on a global scale. At the 2005 Amnesty International film festival, it won the Amnesty International-DOEN Award.{{Cite web|title=China Blue {{!}} La Strada Documentation Center about Human Trafficking|url=https://documentation.lastradainternational.org/doc-center/1563/china-blue|access-date=2021-06-12|website=documentation.lastradainternational.org}}{{Cite web|title=China Blue|url=https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/china-blue|access-date=2021-06-12|website=cinema politica|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Argot Pictures - China Blue - Synopsis|url=https://argotpictures.com/film/china-blue/synopsis|access-date=2021-06-12|website=argotpictures.com}} His third film of Globalization Trilogy is Bitter seeds, which is also his last film as on 2021. The film is about the biotech (Bt) farming in India which analyses the general impact of farming genetically modified cotton, specifically on Indian farmers. The film focuses on the suicide rate of over a quarter million Bt cotton Indian farmers per year due to financial difficulties caused by the massive crop failure in addition to the price of Monsanto's Bt seeds. The film won Green Screen Award (2011) and the Oxfam Global Justice Award (2011).{{Cite web|title=Bitter Seeds {{!}} Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764: Environmental DVDs and Educational DVDs|url=http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bitter.html|access-date=2021-06-12|website=www.bullfrogfilms.com}}{{Citation|title=Bitter Seeds|url=https://www.filmfestival.gr/en/movie-tdf/movie/3952|language=en-gb|access-date=2021-06-12}}{{Cite web|last=Mitchell2011-11-26T11:42:00+00:00|first=Wendy|title=Planet of Snail wins top prize at IDFA|url=https://www.screendaily.com/festivals/planet-of-snail-wins-top-prize-at-idfa/5035078.article|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Screen|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Bitter Seeds|url=https://www.filmplatform.net/product/bitter-seeds/|access-date=2021-06-12|website=FILM PLATFORM - Educational Rights and Screening Licenses|language=en-US}}

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