Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Oscar dream is renewed as the Oscar winning director’s documentary A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is nominated in the category of Documentary Short for the Oscars this year.
The final nominations of the 88th Academy Awards were announced earlier today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.
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Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy shared the Oscar win in the same category in 2012 with the co-director Daniel Junge for their documentary Saving Face. This is the second nomination of Chinoy and also of any Pakistani in the Oscars.
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The moment of jubilation after hearing the news of Oscars nomination was captured and shared on Facebook by Salim Karim, one of the members of the team of the documentary.
A Girl in the River, a joint production of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (SOC) Films and Home Box Office (HBO) Films, follows the life of an 18-year-old victim of the honor killing. The documentary is set to air on America’s premiere cable network HBO in 2016.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, has invited Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy to the PM House for the first screening of the film, as shared on Facebook by the Office of Prime Minister. The country’s leading opinion makers from different segments of society, academics, and intellectuals will also be invited to the screening.
The 88th Academy Awards will be held at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on 28 February.
