Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s narrative, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has been assigned in the Best Documentary – Short subject class for the 88th Academy Awards.
The declaration was made before today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, all the more famously known as The Oscars, because of happen on February 28, 2016.
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Sharmeen has beforehand won the Academy Award for her narrative Saving Face at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in 2012, Pakistan’s first Oscar.
#Pakistan we are going to the#oscars
— Sharmeen Obaid (@sharmeenochinoy) January 14, 2016
She is one of just eleven female executives who have ever won an Oscar for a true to life film. Propelled by her fearlessness and the innumerable casualties of honor wrongdoings in Pakistan, she has likewise dispatched an Anti-Honor Killing Campaign, The Price of Forgiveness.
PM Nawaz praises Sharmeen Obaid over Oscars designation
Leader Nawaz Sharif has praised Sharmeen for the Academy Award assignment.
By proclamation, the head said the topic of selected film rotates around honor killings, which burden a few portions of Pakistani society, including Chinoy’s bits of knowledge could demonstrate extremely valuable in this association.
He additionally communicated the administration’s dedication to free Pakistan of the underhandedness of honor killings by actualizing fitting enactment.