Library To Screen Documentary “Life & Debt”

Continuing its “Saturday Selections” film series, the Bermuda National Library will be showing director Stephanie Black’s 2001 documentary film “Life & Debt” tomorrow [Apr. 20].

The film focusses on the economic and social situation in Jamaica, and specifically the impact of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank’s globalisation policies on the island nation

Incoporating excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid, “Life & Debt” weaves a tapestry of sequences focussing 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 documentary telling with a stylised 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.

The Library is offering two showings of this film at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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