Life & Debt
Soros Documentary Fund A feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica. Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction tex...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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Tuff Gong Pictures Production
2001
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:897dd7e5-511e-4aae-b210-acd38e0d04e0 |
| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
A feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica. Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, the film focuses on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by 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. |
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| Published: | 2001 |