pakistani woman wins oscar

[Karachi]

[IamDZJ]

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has won the first Oscar award for Pakistan for her sort documentary about acid attacks on women in Pakistan. Her documentary title was “Saving Face”. Sharmeen Chinoy is a bold lady who talks through the lens of her camera and always searches for touchy subjects and turns them into heartbreaking movies. She has worked on subjects ranging from child abuse, violence against women, terrorism and natural disasters.
Ms. Chinoy is a brilliant journalist and established filmmaker has made a real distance in her short career by winning an Oscar nomination from Pakistan. Apart from this she is first non-US citizen to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalist. She revealed last year that her documentary saving Face had been shortlisted for the Best Documentary (short film) category for the Oscars. This achievement has rendered Ms. Chinoy “Speechless”
“An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of. It has reaffirmed my belief it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated. I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar,” The BBC quoted Chinoy, as saying.
The news of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy winning the Oscar Award is multi-facial in nature. On one pretext it tells about the atrocities and crime against women like Acid attacks which is a very serious issue. It is believed that incidents of acid attacks are grossly under reported with official figures saying only 100 cases on average over one year. On the other hand it shows the rosy picture of the society as where women like Sharmeen Chinoy has to opportunity to test their skills and earn a worldwide fame for themselves and for the country. “Saving face” talks about the acid attacks on women and winning of Oscar award by this documentary is also a saving face for Pakistan and its civil society. A beautiful and rosy face of Pakistan was attacked terrorist attacks (very similar to acid attacks). It also has another resemblance like acid attacks damages caused by terrorist attacks are also grossly under reported.
However this is a very good effort and very big achievement by young Sharmeen Chinoy which shows just a glimpse of immense talent she has.
http://opinionstudio.net/2012/01/sha...-pakistan.html

[Karachi]

after the oscars:

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won Oscar. - YouTube

[JattApache]

Congrats karachi

[badmash_khel]

Congrats to her but I fear this is one of those typical films/documentary which talks about the plight of women in muslim societies and how they are victims of backwardness and cultural dogmas. I like films which criticizes the ills of soceity but sometimes I feel these films are just made because they portray stereotypical image of muslims amongst westerner. As if westerner are some knights in the shining armour that all female muslims are waiting for. Usually such awards are given not becauses of the quality of the film/documentary but because of the subject matter it tackels and makes westerners comfortable that they were right about the image they had of muslim society.

Just like after the fall of Taliban the Afghan director won an award for the film Osama, a clear example of exploitation of a popular subject and appeal to popular sentiment of feminist and other such organizations. Khaled Hussaini's kite runner is another such example.

Anyway, Congrats to her and these types of films are at least better than usual hollywood bollywood crap.

[haviZsultan]

Yeah I heard of it. It's great news for us.

She is the first Pakistani to ever win an Oscar. Big news for us. I want to watch saving face now.