Tickets can be purchased online or at the box office (0871 704 2069), they cost £10 and include a free glass of wine. Booking fee applies.
Life and Debt explores how with twenty-five years of “help” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, restructuring policies intended to bring Third World nations into the fold of free market economies have crippled Jamaica’s (and other developing countries) efforts toward self-reliant development, while its lenders have become richer. ‘Life and Debt’ features interviews with former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and former President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide
This scathing film - as relevant today as when it was released in 2001– will be followed by a panel discussion that will explore just ‘who owes who’ in the relationship between the rich north and the poor south – especially in light of the recent petition of France to return to poverty stricken post-earthquake Haiti, the 90 million gold francs (£14bn) it took as ‘compensation’ to French slave-owners for Haiti’s independence in 1804.
The panel will be hosted by Tipping Point Film Fund and will include:
Dr. Robert Beckford, an academic and award winning broadcaster, has authored half-a-dozen books in the field of theology and culture and made over 20 documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, averaging two films per year with Channel 4, becoming a regular fixture on the prime time television slots of Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.
Nick Dearden, Director of Jubilee Debt Campaign. He has also worked at War on Want (special focus on labour national rights, including campaigning for justice for the people of Palestine); and Amnesty International UK, with a lead role on their campaign on poverty and economic, social and cultural rights.
Dr. Patricia Daley, a lecturer in Human Geography at Oxford University. She is the author of Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region. Another of her projects examines the condition of new African Diaspora communities in Great Britain.
Tipping Point Film Fund co-founder, Deborah Burton said: ‘Life and Debt is a film that brings together all the elements that matter to us at Tipping Point Film Fund - human stories, compellingly told, placed in the context of the wider political picture. Films have the power to move, inform and empower - Life and Debt does all these. It's played a significant role in advancing the case for debt cancellation at all levels.'
Initially the TPFF Film club will be located in London. TPFF is growing a UK-wide volunteer base which it hopes will enable the Film Club to take place in around the country over time. |
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