LIFE AND DEBT (2003), Stephanie Black’s documentary about Jamaica’s under-developed economy, is listed as number 5 in thegriot.com’s list of best films of the decade. The documentary offers a “rallying cry against the unfair lending policies of the IMF, the desperation of the farmers who can’t sell crops, poverty, and perpetuation of neocolonialism,” according to thegriot.
The website for the film offers this description: Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & 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 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.
For the complete list go to http://www.thegrio.com/2009/12/for-most-readers-every-best.php
For more on the movie go to http://www.lifeanddebt.org/
