Tag: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Sharmeen Obaid wins global leadership award
Oscar winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has won the 2018 Eliasson Global Leadership Prize for her “extraordinary, courageous leadership”.
The activist and filmmaker is the...
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s second short highlights domestic violence
Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy new animated series Aagahi, which aims to educate women in the country about their rights released their second episode...
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy teams up with NBA Champion LeBron James for new...
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has teamed up with basketball star LeBron James for the latest project Student Athlete.
Chinoy has co-directed the film...
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s latest Youtube miniseries honours Pakistan’s heroes
Award-winning filmmaker, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, who has tackled several controversial subjects including honour killing has now presented to us her latest project: an animated...
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy tackles patriarchy in Pakistan
For Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, anger is the most useful emotion. Anger was what motivated her to write for newspapers as a teen-ager and to make...
Indus Valley School’s convocation holds it 24th Convocation
KARACHI: The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) held its 24th Convocation at its campus in Clifton, Karachi, in which 100 Bachelors’...
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and the fault in our digital spaces
On redefining harassment for the online realm
A few days ago, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy took to Twitter to raise the issue of harassment –...
Did Chinoy go too far?
A legal perspective
Internet and social media in the last few decades have advanced drastically, and so has the law, which regulates and governs...
#MeToo and the peculiar case of Obaid-Chinoy
You are, unfortunately, very wrong in your understanding, Ms Director
The nub of the story is: Does characterising this particular incident as harassment understate...
Sharmeen gets doctor fired for sending sister FB request and Twitter...
Things got a little weird when Academy award-winning Pakistani director, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy got a doctor fired from a Karachi hospital— apparently for sending her...
Sharmeen Obaid to be honoured with International Journalism Award in Washington
WASHINGTON: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Al Masri and other winners will be honoured with the ICFJ Knight Journalism Award on November 9 at ICFJ’s Awards Dinner,...
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s documentary wins Emmy
Oscar-winning Pakistani journalist and documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s latest venture A Girl in the river has won an Emmy award at the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards under...
Highlights from Sharmeen Obaid’s chat with Karan Johar, including his take...
The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy sat down with Bollywood producer Karan Johar at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday for an...
3 Bahadur: Revenge of Baba Balaam – In conversation with Sharmeen...
2016 has seen a drastic change in the Pakistani film industry with local filmmakers experimenting with new methods and genres and releasing hits like...
Sharmeen Obaid set to make documentary on Pakistani Olympian
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has decided to launch two short documentaries titled ‘Dream Big Pakistan’ which will feature a 21-year-old woman.
Minhal Sohail, 21, is among seven...
3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam’s trailer released
The first look of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s animated film 3 Bahadur – The Revenge of Baba Balaam, was released on August 3 with the introduction of a...
Shahnawaz Zali nominated for ‘Student Oscar’
The documentary 100 Steps-Sau Qadam has been nominated as Best film in the Narrative category for the 43rd Student Academy Awards.
This 2015 documentary, made by Pakistani...
