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Roshini Thinakaran is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and TED Global Fellow. She is a documentary filmmaker from Sri Lanka and the United States.
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- Tedxmidatlantic 2010 roshini thinakaran 11 5 10
- TEDxPotomac Roshini Thinakaran Joining Forces
- Biography
- Work
- Films
- References
TEDxPotomac - Roshini Thinakaran - Joining Forces
Biography
Thinakaran was born in Sri Lanka and moved to the United States at age seven. Her family was fleeing the civil war going on at the time. Thinakaran attended George Mason University.
Work
Thinakaran's first short film was made about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The film was very short, but it "gained the attention of National Geographic." She became part of the National Geographic Society's Emerging Explorers Program and received a $10,000 grant.
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. She established Women at the Forefront in 2005, a multimedia project that examines war through the eyes of women. Thinakaran spent 14 months in Iraqi neighborhoods making Women at the Forefront.
Her documentary, What Was Promised (2008), focused on the US-led initiative to integrate Iraqi women into the Iraqi Security Forces. It premiered at the National Geographic All Roads Film Project.