By Accident, By Choice: Becoming a Filmmaker, a Leader, a Feminist | | Priya Thuvassery | TEDxIILM

How many of you see yourselves as future leaders? A CEO, a founder, a person at the head of the table? That's a lot of ambition in one room. I'm impressed. Let me tell you something. I'm being very honest here. I didn't grow up wanting to be a filmmaker. Leadership wasn't part of the plan either. For a long time, I was just a person trying to do the work in front of me. And if I'm being truly vulnerable, I was just trying to be independent. That was one sentence my mother told me throughout my childhood. Sh ...