Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He started his first documentary, Village Goat Takes The Beating, about Aceh human rights violations, in 1999. This documentary was an official selection at the 2001 Amnesty Film Festival in Amsterdam. Since then, his ethnographic films, documentaries and short films about human rights and multicultural problems in Indonesia have been screened at various festivals including the Royal Anthropological Institute (Radiotelevisione Italiana) Film Festival in the United Kingdom, the Margaret Mead Film Festival in the United States, as well as festivals in Singapore, Brisbane, Taiwan and Rotterdam.
His three documentaries on Aceh have been released on Digital Video Disc for international distribution by Monash University (Between Three World Project, 2005).
In 2005, he finished his master"s degree in visual cultural studies from Tromso University, Norway, with an ethno-documentary about West Papua called Lukas" Moment. He began his Doctor of Philosophy studies in visual anthropology at Harvard University with a grant from the Fulbright Program.
Danusiri is the executive director of Ragam Media Network, an non-governmental organization that develops visual media as a catalyst for cross-cultural learning and community knowledge management. His current project is "Connexxcreen for Countering Fundamentalism in Indonesia" (sponsored by HIVOS).