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‘Mission: JOY – Finding Happiness In Troubled Times’ Director & Desmond Tutu’s Daughter Talk Filming The Archbishop & Dalai Lama’s Last Meeting For Inspirational Doc

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When documentary filmmaker and anti-slavery activist Peggy Callahan got an invitation in from her friend Doug Abrams to shoot and co-direct Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama talking about joy in India in 2015, she didn’t hesitate to take the job.“I knew this was a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Callahan tells Deadline, who filmed the self-described “mischievous brothers” across five days at the Dalai Lama’s compound in India.

Callahan co-directs with Louie Psihoyos and worked with an award-winning team including former Pixar Animation exec Darla Anderson and DreamWorks Animation exec Damien de Froberville to craft this project on the importance of positivity.Mission: JOY – Finding Happiness In Troubled Times, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year and has been acquired for the BBC Four and BBCiPlayer in the UK.

It features special footage, some prankish anecdotes, animation depicting each man’s difficult journey in life and interviews with those close to them including, Tutu’s daughter, Mpho Tutu van Furth and Thupten Jinpa Langri, the long-time English translator for the Dalai Lama.The two influential figures showcase their examples of humanity, despite their very different and difficult journeys.

Both men have made happiness a habit of life, finding joy in perseverance and furthering it with practice to live fully and face adversity and fight for a better world.Inspired by The Book Of Joy, written by the two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Abrams, the film is part of a wider campaign, Mission: JOY (missionjoy.org), a worldwide initiative to challenge everyone not to wait for joy but to create their own today and every day.In advance of the film’s BBC premiere tomorrow, Deadline spoke with Callahan

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