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Jamaica For Sale: Award Winning Film Gets UK Premiere
Thursday, 11 Apr, 2010
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Director Dr Esther Figueroa
Tourism Concern presents The Human Cost of Holidays: From Jamaica to India
Tourism Concern has arranged an evening of film, photography and debate featuring the UK premier of groundbreaking film, Jamaica for Sale, plus a chance to view Tourism Concern’s hard- hitting photography exhibition, Destination Tsunami: Stories and struggles from India’s southern coast.
Visiting from Jamaica is Jamaica for Sale’s producer and director, Dr Esther Figueroa. Esther Figueroa will discuss the film and take questions from the floor alongside Tourism Concern campaigner Rachel Noble, who will highlight the common themes of poorly planned tourism development in Jamaica and India. This includes the human rights impacts of tourism on local communities, including displacement from their land and loss of livelihoods.
Featuring powerful voices, arresting visuals and iconic music, Jamaica for Sale exposes the scale of unsustainable tourism development in Jamaica and the impacts this is having on local people, the environment and economy. Filled with wit and penetrating observations, Jamaica For Sale engages with a cross section of Jamaicans, including workers, small hoteliers, fishermen, community members and environmentalists.
The film both documents the tourism developments currently transforming Jamaica, and is part of local efforts to challenge these transformations. It serves as a cautionary tale for other islands in the Caribbean and places around the world that are driving tourism development.
Jamaica for Sale won the Audience Award at the Africa World Documentary Film Festival; the Bronze Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival; the Rising Star Award at the Canada Film Festival; Special Mention: Commfest Community Film Festival; Gone With the Film Festival, Indiefest.
Destination Tsunami
It is five years since the December 2004 tsunami devastated the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This exhibition tells the stories and conveys the hardships endured by coastal communities as they now attempt to withstand the multiple pressures of rapid tourism development. It pays tribute to those resisting the powerful developers and government policies that promote tourism at their expense.
Tricia Barnett of Tourism Concern says: “Loss of land and livelihoods, environmental degradation, unequal distribution of tourism’s wealth: sadly, the negative impacts of tourism endured by communities living in the places we like to go on holiday are the same all over the world. This event will bring the voices of some of those affected, which so often go unheard, directly to people in the UK.”
Date: 14th April 2010; 6.15 – 8.30
Venue: Amnesty’s Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA
To reserve your place at this event, email [email protected] or call 020 7133 3800
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