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...Shenzhen's Catalina lighting-fixtures factory, whose biggest customer is Wal-Mart, the managers are constantly struggling to meet the company's pricing demands and still turn a profit. Girls in pink jackets assemble and inspect parts for a little more than $100 a month. "Wal-Mart's requirements are very tight--on quality, ethical standards, production lead times. They've pushed us to achieve better in all ways," says Sng Lai Kee, who heads the factory. Catalina, he says, tries to stay ahead of Chiqui Cui's relentless price demands by coming up with more sophisticated designs for which...
...highlights Catalina Sandino Moreno--in her first professional role--stars as the willful Maria, a young Colombian who, faced with few options in life, decides to become a drug mule. Director Joshua Marston's commentary on the DVD provides a historical backdrop, talking extensively about the drug trade in the U.S. and Colombia...
...Just compare the reactions: after the U.S. men's team won its first team medal--a silver--in a nonboycotted Olympics, the guys were bumping chests. Second place. Wow! At the end of their team final, the silver-medalist women sat glumly on the bench, glaring at Romania's Catalina Ponor as she shimmied for her clapping teammates, knowing the gold was a lock...
...Colombia, job opportunities are, shall we say, limited, even for a young woman as heartbreakingly beautiful as Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno). When we meet her, she is stripping the thorns off roses for a wholesale florist--hating the boss, the degrading working conditions, the paltry...
...Catalina Ponor wants to be the next Nadia Comaneci. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast revolutionized her sport by scoring the first-ever perfect 10.00 on the uneven bars, capturing hearts all over the world and launching an era of child gymnastics stars. Ponor, at 16, has superb balance and a rare clarity of artistic expression that recalls Comaneci. Whether she has Comaneci's effortless grace under pressure won't become clear until she competes in Athens, but Comaneci herself says Ponor has "everything it takes to be a champion." And Ponor leaves...