Roshini Thinakaran

Roshini Thinakaran is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and TED Global Fellow. She is a documentary filmmaker from Sri Lanka and the United States.[1]

Biography

Thinakaran was born in Sri Lanka and moved to the United States at age seven.[1] Her family was fleeing the civil war going on at the time.[2] Thinakaran attended George Mason University.[2]

Work

Thinakaran's first short film was made about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia.[2] The film was very short, but it "gained the attention of National Geographic."[2] She became part of the National Geographic Society's Emerging Explorers Program and received a $10,000 grant.[3]

Much of her work has focused on researching and profiling the lives of women living in post-conflict zones including Iraq, Liberia, Lebanon and Afghanistan.[4] She established Women at the Forefront in 2005, a multimedia project that examines war through the eyes of women.[4] Thinakaran spent 14 months in Iraqi neighborhoods making Women at the Forefront.[5]

Her documentary, What Was Promised (2008), focused on the US-led initiative to integrate Iraqi women into the Iraqi Security Forces.[6] It premiered at the National Geographic All Roads Film Project.[3]

Films

References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Michelle (November 2007). "Viewing War Through Women's Eyes". World Literature Today. 81 (6): 10–12. Retrieved 22 December 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Sklarew, Renee (September 2009). "Filmmaker on the Battleground". Northern Virginia Magazine. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 Rayasam, Renuka (1 October 2008). "In the Line of Fire". Washingtonian. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Women at the Forefront: Examining the Impact of Conflict on Women". Peace Media. United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  5. "Roshini Thinakaran". National Geographic. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  6. Hristova, Stefka (2012). "Abu Ghraib: A Ghostly Story". In de Matos, Christine; Ward, Rowena. Gender, Power, and Military Occupations: Asia Pacific and the Middle East Since 1945. New York: Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 9780415891837.
  7. Howley, Andrew (18 January 2012). "'After the Gas Rush' Part 2". National Geographic. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
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