Itandehui Jansen is an award-winning filmmaker. She studied at the Netherlands Film Academy, and participated in different international training programs, such as the BERLINALE TALENTS, The BINGER FILM LAB, and the TORINO FILM LAB, where she studied under the guidance of among others Gyula Gazdag, Ken Dancyger, Mark Travis, and Judith Weston.

Her films have screened at international festivals such as IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), FICM (Morelia International Film Festival), Washington D.C. Shorts, ZINEBI, the London Short Film Festival, and SLAMDANCE. 

Her films have received several international awards, and she was nominated for the Mexican Film Critics Award Diosa de Plata. Her feature drama In Times of Rain won the Award for Best Emerging Feature Film at the Oaxaca Film Fest and her feature drama Itu Ninu received the Festival Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival. 

At present she is Associate Professor of Film and the Programme Lead for the MA Film.

Her research focuses on sustainable materials and approaches in film practice. She is also interested in representations of Cultural Heritage, Minoritarian Languages, and Migration in Film.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3979254/

Previous Work: https://miradanativa.org/realizacion/itandehui-jansen/

Current Research Project: https://ituninu.com