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Joshka !
In
2002, Joshka established Sapiens Productions. Since then she has produced
several films and television programmes on water, the environment, children
and HIV/AIDS, indigenous land rights, logging and mining in rainforests and
fishing industries.
Joshka
holds a Masters degree in Visual Anthropology from Leiden
University, the Netherlands. During her studies,
she started working for television in 1992 as a broadcast trainee in Hilversum. Her
anthropological fieldwork brought her to Sudan in 1995 where she was
working on audio visual communication strategies with refugees and displaced
people. There she made her first documentary that was screened at the
Students Ethnographic Film festival back in the Netherlands.
After
her studies, Joshka worked in development for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs posted in the Middle East. From her
base in Syria, she then
traveled extensively in the most remote areas to conduct fieldwork and
produced several promotional and educational programmes, amongst others about
an Ecological Project on wild almonds at a desert Monastery in Syria.
Her
latest venture was the anthropological research on underground water tunnels
in Syria.
She lived for a long time in a remote desert village to renovate an ancient
water tunnel together with the villagers. On this subject she made the award
winning film ̉Tunnel VisionÓ which started off her career in environmental
filmmaking. Currently she is also writing her PhD dissertation about these
tunnels systems.
Joshka
speaks fluent Dutch, English, French, German and Arabic.
CV Joshka Wessels
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