Life and debt / a Tuff Gong Pictures production ; produced and directed by Stephanie Black.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Kincaid, Jamaica, author.

Contributor:

Black, Stephanie (Motion picture director), producer, director.

Becker, Belinda, narrator.

Tuff Gong Pictures, producer.

New Yorker Films, distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

Jamaica--Economic conditions--20th century.

Jamaica.

Jamaica--Social conditions--20th century.

International Monetary Fund.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : distributed by New Yorker Films, [2001]

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Set in Jamaica, this film is a case study of how contemporary free trade policies and global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization affect the economies of developing nations. Includes interviews with IMF Deputy Director Stanley Fischer, Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jamaica's former Prime Minister Michael Manley as well as tourists, farmers, Rastafarians, factory workers and others.

Credits:

Editor, John Mullen ; cinematography, Malik Sayeed ... [et al] ; narration read by Belinda Becker.

Notes:

"A New York Films release"--opening frames.

Narration written by Jamaica Kincaid based on her book about Antigua, "A small place".

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

50299779