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Advertisement Amy Benson was looking for a success story when she headed to Nepal in the summer of 2008. A story she was sure she’d found when she met Shanta Darnal — a 15-year-old girl with dreams of becoming a doctor.

Darnal — who came from a poor, rural family and was attending school in Katmandu thanks to Western donations — was bright, determined and beautiful, a poster child for a growing movement promoting girls’ education as a panacea for global development.

“I really did believe that Shanta had the power to change her country, she had that kind of personality,” says Benson, looking out the window of her cramped editing studio in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. “I felt this is someone who could change the world.”

Benson had been hired by a Los Angeles nonprofit to tell the story of Nepalese girls attending school, thanks to the nonprofit’s efforts. As a former teacher at an all-girls school and a filmmaker, Benson was excited to show the world the power of educating girls.

Benson was so moved by Darnal that, in addition to shooting the promotional film she’d been hired to do, she decided to document Darnal’s journey toward becoming a doctor in a feature-length film Benson planned to shoot over multiple years.

“Of course she was going to make it,” remembers Benson six years later. “It never occurred to me that she wouldn’t make it.” Advertisement