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Daughters of Destiny is a 2017 English-language original Netflix documentary series created by Oscar-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth. It follows a group of disadvantaged children in rural India enrolled in the Shanti Bhavan residential school located in Tamil Nadu , India .
Shanti Bhavan featured in the documentary The Backward Class (2014), and the Netflix documentary series Daughters of Destiny: The Journey of Shanti Bhavan (2017), [9] written, directed, and co-produced by Vanessa Roth. [10] [11] In 2014, Shanti Bhavan student Visali was honoured as one of Glamour’s Women of the Year. [12]
Abraham M. George is an Indian-American businessman, academic, and philanthropist. He is the founder of The George Foundation (TGF), a non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India dedicated to the welfare and empowerment of economically and socially disadvantaged populations in India. His foundation has initiated numerous projects in ...
George and Shanti Bhavan Children's Project were featured in the 2017 original Netflix documentary series Daughters of Destiny: The Journey of Shanti Bhavan, written, directed, and co-produced by Vanessa Roth. [30] [31] [32] George presented at TEDxUNC in 2014, [33] and at TEDxCollegeofWilliam&Mary in 2016. [34]
Vanessa Roth is an American filmmaker who writes, produces and directs non-fiction films. She has won a number of awards for her films, including a 2008 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary for Freeheld; an Emmy Honors Award for Social Impact and a IDA Nomination for best doc series for her Netflix series, Daughters of Destiny; an Alfred I duPont-Columbia award for Taken In: The Lives of ...
As originally created this redirect goes to Shanti Bhavan. A separate article about the Netflix TV series is in development at Draft:Daughters of Destiny: The Journey of Shanti Bhavan so this is just a stopgap. Please feel free to re-redirect, or re-use this title, when the real article is up.
The 91-minute documentary was shot inside the Shanti Bhavan school, [4] by Affinity Films. [5] Grant lived and worked at the school while making the film. [6] The dialogue is partly in English and partly in Tamil with English subtitles. [7] The film was later screened in Toronto, received positive reviews from Now Magazine [8] and The Globe and ...
Robert Antoine. Robert Antoine (1914-1981) Robert Antoine (1914 in Belgium – 1981 Calcutta, India) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary in India. Professor of Comparative Literature at the Jadavpur University, he was a Sanskritist and musician. He was co-founder, with Pierre Fallon, of Shanti Bhavan, a dialogue centre at Calcutta.