MONEY Colloquium Film Series at Lebanon Valley College Presents "Life and Debt"

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Life and Debt will be screened at the Allen Theatre on March 13 at 5:30 p.m.

ANNVILLE, PA (02/21/2012)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College will show "Life and Debt" on Tuesday, March 13 at the Allen Theatre in Annville at 5:30 p.m. The film is part of LVC's Colloquium Series on MONEY. Tickets are $1 for non-LVC students and $3 for the general public. The film is free to LVC students.

"Life and Debt" (2001), a documentary by Stephanie Black, weaves together the stories of individual Jamaicans whose lives are largely affected by foreign economic agendas. Segments explore the plight of workers in garment factories, the effect of import and export restrictions on the domestic Jamaican food market, and how liberalization policies contributed to the decline of Jamaica's dairy industry. Overall, "Life and Debt" aims to clarify the impact of globalization on agriculture and industry in Jamaica.

Stephanie Black is an award-winning documentary producer and director. Her other filmography includes "H-2 Worker," which won Best Documentary and Best Cinematography in the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. She also directed and produced "AFRICA UNITE" and documentary segments for Children's Television Workshop on "Sesame Street."

MONEY is a year-long integrated series of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, films, and courses that consider society's idea of money. It involves presentations on problems such as unemployment, poverty, and the gender wage gap, as well as discussions on tax policy, the job market and entrepreneurship, and finally a theoretical consideration of the very idea of money, the ideology of the free market, and the morality and theology of capitalism.