Life and Debt - Globalization and Jamaica

Official Life and Debt website

IMF MP3

This is an excellent film made by Stephanie Black which explores how globalization has affected the economy and local population of Jamaica. I used excerpts from this film on the track 'IMF' because it is important to understand the suffereing caused by globalization. On the whole the mainstream media behaves as though these problems do not exist. If we live in ignorance of this then organizations like the IMF will continue to inflict poverty and suffering.

Official Blurb:

"Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact."