Annette Danto

Who is 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, Gandhi’s Wheel and The Never Ending Path, distributed internationally through Forward In Time.

Danto holds a BA magna cum laude from McGill University, an MS from Columbia University, and an M.F.A. from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Program in Film and Television. 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, a Leonard and Claire Tow Faculty Fellow, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist to India.