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Saving Face is a 2012 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge about acid attacks on women in Pakistan.The film won an Emmy Award and the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, making its director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistan's first Oscar winner.
Good Morning Karachi (formerly Rafina) [2] is a 2013 Pakistani drama film directed by Sabiha Sumar and produced by Sachithanandam Sathananthan under the banner Vidhi Films. [3] The film is written by Malia Scotch Marmo, Sumar and Samhita Arni, based on the novel Rafina by the acclaimed Pakistani writer Shandana Minhas.
Her first feature-length film was Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), released in 2003. She is known for exploring themes of gender, religion, patriarchy and fundamentalism in Pakistan. [1] She, along with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Samar Minallah, are some of the Pakistani women independent documentary filmmakers to have screened their work outside ...
The result is the new documentary Bread and Roses, directed by Sahra Mani and produced by Academy Award winner Lawrence, 34, through her production company Excellent Cadaver. "I wanted to make it ...
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Urdu: دریا میں ایک لڑکی: معافی کی قیمت) is a 2015 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about honor killings in Pakistan. The film is produced by Tina Brown and Sheila Nevins in collaboration with HBO Documentary Films. [1]
In 1949 she started working in films and made her debut as a child actress in film Shahida and later in 1950 she did a supporting role in film Be-Qarar.The same year she worked in film Shammi and was named Shammi after her character in the film it was a Punjabi film it was produced by famous singer Malika Pukhraj mother of singer Tahira Syed who owned a film studio in Lahore.
Television and Film likewise continue to present submissive and subservient Pakistani women in a male-dominated Pakistani society. [ 27 ] S.S. Sirajuddin in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literature in English , expresses reservations about the availability of free space for feminism in Pakistan, and feels that the nation is still much ...
Guy Lavie, channel manager for Israel's yesDocu and Brianna Little, development executive with Amazon Studios applauded the film, Brianna called the film "Incredible". Michael Kronish of Vice Canada called the film "a natural fit” for Vice. [12] Showgirls of Pakistan won $10,000 Corus-Hot Docs Forum pitch prize during the 2016 Hot Docs Forum ...