Anita Doron

Born into a family of mountaineering engineers in Transcarpathia in the former USSR, Anita Doron is an award-winning Canadian-Hungarian writer, director and story editor. Her movies have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The Lesser Blessed, which she wrote and directed, received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Anita's most recent screenplay is the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated "The Breadwinner". Anita is nominated for an Annie Award, a Humanitas Prize and for a Canadian Screen Award for her work on the screenplay. Anita is a TED Fellow, an initiative bringing together international visionaries - scientists, artists, activists, entrepreneurs, doctors, journalists, and inventors - to collaborate across disciplines to create positive change around the world. As part of her Fellowship, and through the support of the Guggenheim Foundation, Anita is collaborating on a sci-fi graphic novel which will also be adapted for television. She is also working with Suleiman Bakhit, another TED Fellow and 2016 WEF Young Global Leader, to prevent violent extremism through stories of heroism inspired by mythology and narratives of hope and tolerance.