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Life and Debt
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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 billio...
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 an "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.
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- Creator
- a Tuff Gong Pictures production ; a film by Stephanie Black ; produced and directed by Stephanie Black ; narration written by Jamaica Kincaid
- Other Title
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- Title on disc label and container: Life + Debt
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Black, Stephanie (Motion picture director) film producer, film director
- Becker, Belinda, narrator
- Manley, Michael, 1924-1997, interviewee (expression)
- Fischer, Stanley, interviewee (expression)
- Witter, Michael, interviewee (expression)
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, interviewee (expression)
- Coore, David, interviewee (expression)
- Rawlings, Jerry, interviewee (expression)
- Sayeed, Malik, director of photography
- Mullen, John, editor of moving image work
- Kincaid, Jamaica. Small place
- Tuff Gong Pictures
- New Yorker Video (Firm)
- Publication
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- Collectors edition; Widescreen version
- New York, NY : New Yorker Films Artwork, [2003]
- New York, NY : Distributed by New Yorker Video
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black-and-white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (8 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
- ISBNs
- 1567303110, 9781567303117
- OCLC
- ocm51856494
- Credits
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- Narration read by Belinda Becker; interviews with Michael Manley, Stanley Fischer, Michael Witter, David Coore, Jerry Rawlings, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Cinematography by Malik Sayeed and three others ; edited by John Mullen
- Narration based on "A small place" by Jamaica Kincaid, c1987.
- Originally produced as an American documentary in 2001.
- Special features: trailer (2 min.); additional footage from Michael Manley's interview [featurette] (18 min.); director commentary [optional audio feature]; photo gallery on the international anti-globalization movement [slide show] (7 min.); music video "Mr. Heartless" [featurette] (5 min.); information on CD soundtrack [text feature].
- DVD format; Dolby Digital audio; letterbox presentation, 16/9, compatible 4/3.
- In English with optional English subtitles; Closed-captioned.
- Introduction -- Welcome to Jamaica -- The International Monetary Fund -- Independence -- Lending -- The sunshine guarantee -- Island production -- Trade barriers -- Dairy -- Bananas -- Tourists -- Free zones -- Life and debt -- McDonald's -- Chicken parts -- Peppers, spices and tourism -- Circumstances -- Just human beings -- Be still Babylon -- End credits
Subjects
- Kincaid, Jamaica -- Film adaptations.
- International Monetary Fund.
- World Trade Organization.
- Globalization.
- Globalization -- Social aspects.
- Globalization -- Economic aspects.
- Globalization -- Political aspects.
- Anti-globalization movement -- Jamaica.
- Investments, Foreign -- Jamaica.
- International business enterprises -- Jamaica.
- International trade -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Jamaica -- Social conditions.
- Jamaica -- Economic conditions.
- Jamaica -- Description and travel.