Synopsis

Utilising 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 US and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional feature documentary telling with a stylised narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade are understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.

Details

Feature (80mins) | Jamaica, United States of America

Language:

English

Production

Producers:

Stephanie Black

Directors:

Stephanie Black