This is an unprecedented year, as not one but two films of Pakistani filmmakers made to the long and short list of Oscar nominations this year.
A month ago we heard the news of Jami’s “Moor” joining the long list of Foreign-Language Film nominations, contending with 80 other films, and just recently Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, first Pakistani Oscar winning director’s, documentary “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” is shortlisted for the nominations in the category of Documentary Short.
A Girl in the River is contending with 9 other films in the category. The final nominations of 5 documentaries will be announced in January next year. The complete shortlist can be found here.
“A Girl in the River, which is a joint production of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (SOC) Films and Home Box Office (HBO) follows the life of an 18-year-old girl who is a survivor of an honour killing attempt.”, reports Dawn Images.
Chinoy won an Oscar in 2012 in the same category for the documentary film “Saving Face”. She has also won an Emmy award, which is equivalent to TV’s Oscar, for the documentary “Pakistan: Children of the Taliban”. She received Pakistani’s highest civilian award, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, for bringing laurels home from the president of Pakistan in 2012.