“A woman is
like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
Sharmeen
obaid-chinoy has been an inspiration not just for aspiring filmmakers but the entire nation.
The first Pakistani
women to win two Academy
Awards she won the second one this year for A
Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Sharmeen has
been courageously using her skill set to advocate women empowerment
and raise concerns over the atrocities they continue to face in this part of
the world. While her first documentary Saving Face (2012)
shed light on the challenges and struggles of acid attack victims,
A
Girl in the River brought honour killings to the
spot light prompting Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Mohammad
Nawaz Sharif to take note of the
issue and work towards protecting women by law. And although the filmmaker has been witness
to severe backlash
from extremist
forces, it was only after her meeting with PM that the Women Protection
Bill was implicated in Punjab.
One of the 11 female directors from across the world, to have ever won an Oscar for a non-fiction film, and the only woman of colour to win this year’s whitewashed Academy Awards,Chinoy has made more than a dozen multi-award winning films in over 10 countries along with Pakistan’s first animated feature 3 Bahadur,last year. She has already started working on its sequel, due to release later this year,Last year also saw Chinoy produce a documentary on Pakistan’s under celebrated group of musicians, the Sachal Jazz ensemble, titled the Song of Lahore, which had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
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