After the Rana Plaza disaster, documentary filmmakers, Hannan Majid and Richard York returned to Bangladesh to make their second film on the plight of garment workers.
Raising and educating her grandsons, she searches for resolution and answers through protest on the streets of Dhaka and amongst the rubble and torn fabrics of Rana Plaza.
Since the release of the 2010 film The Machinists, Rainbow Collective built strong ties with the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF), who were instrumental in securing the access and characters for Tears in the Fabric.
[1] Tears in the Fabric had its charity premiere in London on 24 April 2014, courtesy of Open Vizor, War on Want, Traid and Rainbow Collective, at Regent's University to raise money for the families of the Rana Plaza victims.
[5][6] Julie Flynn Badal of The Huffington Post said, "Tears in the Fabric, is an intimate portrait of the fall-out from Rana Plaza long after the world has moved on to other news items... a film that is not afraid to look grief squarely in the eye.