Directors: Louie Psihoyos, Peggy Calahan
Producers: Peggy Calahan, Mark Monroe
Description:
Mission: JOY is the moving and laugh-out-loud funny documentary about the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu’s friendship and their secrets of finding joy in troubled times. With genuine affection, mutual respect and a healthy dose of teasing, these unlikely friends impart lessons gleaned from lived experience, ancient traditions, and the latest cutting-edge science regarding how to live with joy in the face of all of life's challenges from the extraordinary to the mundane. Mission: Joy is an antidote for the times. The film was inspired by the international best-selling “Book of Joy” by Doug Abrams, Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. The global icons and their message inspired four Academy Award winners and renowned creatives from every part of the process to join the production team.
Biography:
Peggy Callahan is an anti-slavery activist, filmmaker and producer who has spent nearly 20 years fighting modern-day slavery and decades producing films on poverty, the foster care system, the death penalty, racism, homelessness and slavery.
Louie Psihoyos is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS). He is recognized as one of the top still photographers in the world, having created iconic images for National Geographic for 18 years, and hundreds of covers for other magazines. Believing that film can be the most powerful weapon in the world, Louie founded OPS with Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Clark in 2005.
Mark Monroe is an award-winning documentary writer and filmmaker. A journalism graduate from the University of Oklahoma, Mark began his career in television as a newswriter for CNN.
Contact Information:
e: kathy@thefilmcollaborative.org
w: https://missionjoy.org/film/
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