Tag: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

When Karachi-born film director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy made ‘Saving Face’, she tackled one of the hidden taboos of her society: acid attacks by men...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced conferring a high Civil Award on Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on winning an Oscar Award for her documentary...

Accustomed to being the focus of bad news, the Pakistani nation celebrated on Monday after a filmmaker from Karachi won the country’s first Academy...

Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has been nominated for an Academy Award for her documentary ‘Saving Face’, co-directed with Daniel Junge, and will be...

Last year, Karachi-born filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won an International Emmy for “Pakistan’s Taliban Generation”, her documentary focusing on young Taliban recruits in the aftermath...