Life and debt

The Resource Life and debt
Label
Life and debt
Statement of responsibility
a Tuff Gong Pictures Production ; a film by Stephanie Black ; narration written by Jamaica Kincaid ; produced and directed by Stephanie Black
Title variation
Life + debt
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Seven billion in debt (circa 2000), Jamaica has seen its agricultural industries laid to waste by the impossibility of competing with subsidized, multi-national American based companies. The poverty of 'average' Jamaican in a shantytown near Kingston is in stark contrast to the luxurious tropical fantasy paradise experienced by tourists in posh Montego Bay. In a dog-eat-dog global economy, the US and its multinational corporate clients have all the advantages, while Jamaica has no agriculture, no industry, and no tax base--only ever-growing debt
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Cinematography by Malik Sayeed, Kyle Kibbe, Richard Lannaman, Alex Nepomniaschy ; edited by John Mullen
Language note
In English; closed-captioned
PerformerNote
Narration read by Belinda Becker; interviews with Michael Manley, Stanley Fischer, Michael Witter, David Coore, Jerry Rawlings, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Runtime
86
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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