China Synopsis
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
The 2019–2021 China Window
Coded Bias holds position #79 of 225 China films in the 2019–2021 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2020s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2020s in China, 216 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Coded Bias premiered alongside 55 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 55 other China films in 2020.
The 776th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Audience Engagement
41 audience reviews — more than 60% of China films in our index.
Review volume (60th percentile) outruns trending popularity (38th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Coded Bias, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- silicon valley · 1
- civil rights · 1
- sexism · 1
- sexual discrimination · 1
- racial discrimination · 1
- big brother · 1
- gafam · 1
- facial recognition · 1
- algorithm · 1
- mass surveillance · 1
- artificial intelligence (a.i.) · 21
- racism · 7
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #221 of 946 China films indexed here (77th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.7 points above the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Documentary productions specifically: #25 of 52 (top 48%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Production Companies | 7th Empire Media, Independent Lens, ITVS, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 26m |
| Release Date | November 11, 2020 |
| IMDb | tt11394170 |
| Official Site | www.codedbias.com |