Alexandra Jansse

(Amsterdam, 1956) is a film and tv documentary maker with a penchant for the Caribbean, where she spent part of her childhood. Recently she made a documentary about the development of Willemstad. In it she warns that the town mustn’t surrender to outsiders and project developers. Her first long documentary was Water the Drop of Life, on worldwide water management, for which she filmed in sixteen different countries. It was followed by among others films about the West Bank, female child soldiers from Sierra Leone and Liberia and patriotism in Israel. In 2003 she founded EMF Films with which she made the international tv series A Dollar a Day, about life below the poverty line. Alexandra Jansse worked for various film festivals in the Caribbean and for the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The aim of all her projects is to connect people and get them moving. Jansse studied political and social geography in Amsterdam, specialising in the Third World.