Tonight at 7 p.m., the Baobab will screen Life and Debt (Stephanie Black, U.S. 2001, 80 min.) as part of the Caribbean Film Festival.

Life and 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.

[source: Baobab website, 2015-Jun-8]