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Film was in the “documentary, short film” category was nominated for the Oscar nominations to earn. In the 84 history of the Oscar Award, she is the first Pakistani to have received the national award.
Obaid, who has directed several documentaries, won an Emmy award in 2010 for her documentary Pakistan: Children of the Taliban.
Saving face, the Karachi-based filmmaker who has co-directed by Daniel Junge, describes the life of a British Pakistani surgeon who donates his time to heal acid victims in Pakistan. The film is set to be released in March of this year.
Born in 1978, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an internationally renowned Emmy and Oscar award-winning Pakistani journalist and documentary filmmaker. She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010. She is also the first non-American to the Livingston Award for Young Journalists win.
Born in Karachi as Sharmeen Obaid, she attended the Karachi Grammar School. Sharmeen graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and government and then went to complete two Master’s degrees from Stanford University in International Policy Studies and Communication.
Obaid’s career in the documentary began when she examined the plight of Afghan refugee children in Pakistan for one of its articles. Their situation was so dire, and their stories so compelling, that Sharmeen decided to return to Pakistan and to create a film about them. She petitioned Smith College and the New York Times Television production division for the subsidies that allow her to make her goals. Intrigued by her story, both organizations gave her the money and the production equipment and training.
