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Life and Debt
Director: Stephanie Black
Producer: Stephanie Black
Run Time: 86 minutes
Cost: $29.95
Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid, Life and 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.