CULTURE FEST: Life & Debt

The film “Life and Debt” addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country, such as Jamaica. The film 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.