Filmmaker
Alexandra Anderson
Alexandra Anderson has lived and worked in Europe, Latin America, and Canada, where she is involved in projects with the National Film Board of Canada and teaches at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts. Anderson has 18 years of professional experience in the film and television industry as a researcher, editor, and director/producer. Her documentaries, largely made for British television, have been seen around the world and have won awards in both Europe and Canada. (07/09)
Available Title(s):
Hell to Pay
A film by Alexandra Anderson, 1988, 52 min, Color
A moving and politically sophisticated analysis of the international debt situation through the eyes of the women of Bolivia, the poorest country in Latin America. Although most directly affected by government austerity programs, peasant women are assumed not to understand the workings of international capital and foreign policy. HELL TO PAY poignantly contradicts such assumptions…
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