Life and debt

DVD 2003

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...

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ISBN:

9781567303117
1567303110

Edition:

Collectors edition

Description:

1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital video
videodisc
DVD
video file DVD

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Title on disc label and container: Life + debt

Notes:

Narration based on "A small place" by Jamaica Kincaid, 1987
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 minutes); Information on CD soundtrack [text feature]
Cinematography by Malik Sayeed, Kyle Kibbe, Richard Lannaman, Alex Nepomniaschy ; edited by John Mullen
Narration read by Belinda Becker; interviews with Michael Manley, Stanley Fischer, Michael Witter, David Coore, Jerry Rawlings, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
DVD; Dolby Digital audio; letterbox presentation, 16/9, compatible 4/3
In English; closed-captioned

Contents:

Introduction
Welcome to Jamaica
The International Monetary Fund
Independence
Lending
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
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

Control Number:

1897815

UPC:

717119830342

Other Authors:

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Becker, Belinda
Black, Stephanie (Motion picture director)
Fischer, Stanley
Kincaid, Jamaica. Small place
Manley, Michael, 1924-1997
New Yorker Video (Firm)
Tuff Gong Pictures
Witter, Michael

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