在这部棉花之路纪录片片中,由美国独立电影导演罗拉和中国制片人李桢合作完成的72分钟的纪录片《棉花之路》通过朴素唯美的镜头语言，还原了纺织制造业全球供应链的原貌：美国南卡罗来纳州农田里的棉花，被集装箱运送到中国江苏省常州市的纺织厂，经过加工制造成为波士顿红袜队（Boston Red Sox）的服装，又重新运回美国，低价出售给消费者。导演罗拉说，消费者往往意识不到廉价时尚背后有着高昂的代价。
What does a rural town in South Carolina have to do with China? Americans consume nearly twenty billion new items of clothing each year, and at least one billion of them are made in China. Cotton Road uncovers the transnational movement of cotton and tells the stories of workers lives in a conventional cotton supply chain. From rural farms in South Carolina to factory cities in China, we span the globe to encounter the industrial processes behind our rapacious consumption of cheap clothing and textile products. Are we connected to one another through the things we consume? Cotton Road explores a contemporary landscape of globalized labor through human stories and provides an opportunity to reflect on the ways our consumption impacts others and drives a global economy.
