[IMC-NYC] Fwd: LIFE AND DEBT - screening to help promote

[ana nogueira]

hey all, 

fyi..
i think it would be cool to maybe feature this on our site
maybe the week of, in our cool little announcement box? Can
we run a trailer or do an interview as they suggested?

ana


--- Steven Starr <steven@freenetproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I have a thought which might be a really cool
> thing for IMC - NY
> to jump into. 
> 
> LIFE AND DEBT, by documentarian Stephanie Black (a good
> friend) is the
> opening night film for this
> years Human Rights Film Festival at Lincoln Center. I've
> seen it, it's
> remarkable; it premiered at the LAFF
> last week, it was received so well that the Festival
> created a special
> critics prize for Best Film.
> 
> Stephanie dissects the mechanism of debt that is
> destroying local
> agriculture and industry in Third World
> Countries. It's an unapologetic, searing education on
> what the new world
> order looks like from the POV
> of Jamaican workers and farmers. It shows the real world
> results of
> IMF/WTO/WB policy, and does a
> great job of raising consciousness. Globalization's never
> been more
> local than this.
> 
> After the film premieres on June 15th, it's going to show
> at Cinema
> Village for the following week.
> 
> It's got music by Mutabaruka, Ziggy Marley and the Melody
> Makers,
> Sizzla, Buju Banton, Bob Marley and
> Yami Bolo. Ziggy is going to play a short acoustic set at
> the Walter
> Reade before the film starts.
> 
> So it occurred to me that given the subject matter, the
> vibe, and the
> locale, it feels like a natural for you guys
> to jump in to get the word out. I'd really like to hook
> you up with
> Stephanie, or Carleen from the Marley Foundation, (one of
> the forces
> behind this beautiful film)...., to see if there's a way
> to pack Cinema
> Village. Maybe there's a featured interview with
> Stephanie, a trailer to
> run, I don't know..... some way for the indymedia site to
> help pack
> Cinema Village.  OK. Enough out of me....I've copied
> Carleen and
> Stephanie on this email to keep things simple.
> 
> Any thoughts would be great, and since I'm overseas for
> the next week or
> so, feel free to email Stephanie directly....
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> ((:
> 
> Steven
> 
> PS. and fyi, what follows is more (and maybe redundant) 
> info from
> stef.....
> 
> 
> 
>                            Hi. If anyone you know could
> help get the
> word out to  people with regard to the NYC
> screenings of  "Life and Debt" JUNE 16th-JUNE 21st at
> CINEMA VILLAGE,
> located at 22 East 12th
> Street (between University Place and 5th Avenue), that
> would be really
> appreciated. If there is a good turnout for the NYC run
> at CINEMA
> VILLAGE,this will signal that it could be brought to
> other theatres
> around the country, which would be great!!! Any members
> of the press can
> contact the publicist Phil Hall at opencity@aol.com to
> attend press
> screenings being held on May 23rd at 10:00am Walter Reade
> Theatre at
> Lincoln Center or at Cinema Village on Monday, June 4th 
> at noon. Thanks
> for your help,
> 
> 
>                            Life and Debt - (35mm 86min)
>                            A documentary film by
> Stephanie Black
>                            Winner Critics Jury Prize
> Honorable
>                            Mention "Best Film of the
> Festival"
>                            Los Angeles Film Festival,
> April 2001
>                            (World Premiere)
> 
> 
>                            Jamaica - land of sea, sand
>                            and sun. And a prime example
>                            of the complexities and
> dangers of
>                            economic globalization for the
> world's
>                            developing countries. 
> Utilizing
>                            Jamaica as an example of a
> country
>                            which has been under the
> tutelage of the
>                            International Monetary Fund
> (IMF)
>                            and  other international
> lending institutions
> 
>                            for nearly twenty-five years,
> this
>                            searing film dissects the
> "mechanism
>                            of debt" that is destroying
> local
>                            agriculture and industry in
> Third
>                            World countries while
> substituting
>                            sweat-shops and cheap imports.
>  With
>                            a voice-over narration written
> by
>                            Jamaica Kincaid,  adapted from
> her
> non-fiction book
>                           A Small Place,LIFE AND DEBT is
> an
>                            unapologetic look at the
>                            "new world order" from the
> point of
>                            view of Jamaican workers,
> farmers, and
> 
>                            government and policy
> officials who
>                            see the reality of
> globalization from
>                            the ground up. With music by
>                            Mutabaruka, Ziggy Marley and
> the
>                            Melody Makers,Sizzla, Bob
> Marley, Buju
>                            Banton, Yami Bolo,among many 
> others.
> 
>                            THEATRICAL SCREENING at 
> CINEMA VILLAGE
>                            Saturday, June 16th- Thursday,
> June 21st  22
> East 12th Street NYC (between 5th
>                            Avenue and University Place)
> tel: 924-3363
>                            CHECK NEWSPAPERS FOR 
> SCREENING TIMES
> 


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