Annette Danto

Annette Danto is a producer, director, sound recordist and educator. Extensive credits in film/television production, documentary and sound recording. Credits include: BBC, Channel Four, NHK, Canal Plus, NBC, HBO and Showtime. Danto has directed nineteen fiction and documentary films for nonprofit organizations, including: UNIFEM, Pathfinder International and Ted Turner Foundation. Recent documentaries include Reflections on Media Ethics (2011), Gandhi’s Wheel (2010) and The Never Ending Path (2005), distributed internationally through Forward In Time.
Danto holds a BA magna cum laude from McGill University (1980), an MS from Columbia University (1982), and an M.F.A. from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Program in Film and Television (1989). Since 1997 she has been a professor at Brooklyn College, with a joint appointment in the Department of Film and the Department of Television/ Radio. She has been a Fulbright Research Scholar to India (2002–03), a Leonard and Claire Tow Faculty Fellow (2003, 2008), and a Fulbright Senior Specialist to India (2004). She has received grants from the Ted Turner Foundation (2001), Gates Foundation (2004, 2005), Eastman Foundation (2008), and has directed films in West Africa for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and in India for Pathfinder International. Her award winning films have exhibited nationally and internationally.
In addition to international screenings of her films, she has given lectures and special presentations at conferences and universities in Istanbul, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Karnataka and in the United States.
Annette Danto is the president of Friends of Fulbright to India, an alumni association of former Fulbright Scholars to India. She is also the co-founder of AV Communications Trust, a non-profit media organization based in South India. The Trust offers media workshops in underserved regions of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.