Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Sharmeen Obaid (Pakistani Director) Nominated for Oscars



Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a Pakistani Journalist and a Documentary Filmmaker ...... She was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and received a bachelors degree from Smith College and went on to complete two masters degree from Stanford University.

Specials:
She is the First:


  • non-American to win the Livingston Award for Best International Reporting

  • Pakistani to win an Emmy Award for her documentary Children of the Taliban (2010)

  • Pakistani to be nominated for Oscar Award, for her documentary Saving Face (24 Jan 2012)

Her Films Include:


  • Terrors Children

  • Reinventing the Taliban?

  • On a Razors Edge

  • Pakistans Double Game

  • City of Guilt

  • Cold Comfort

  • Highway of Tears

  • The New Apartheid

  • Women of the Holy Kingdom

  • Assimilation No, Integration Yes

  • Birth of a Nation

  • Lifting the Veil / Afghanistan Unveiled

  • Iraq: The Lost Generation

  • Pakistans Taliban Generation / Children of Taliban

  • Transgenders: Pakistans Open Secret

  • Saving Face

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