Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Bagged Emmy Award For Her Documentary Film !
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, the only Pakistani filmmaker who have won Oscar. The filmmaker won the Oscar for her documentary Saving Faces and many more international awards for her work, she has highlighted the atrocities of acid victims and injustice with women in Pakistan.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy accepts the award for best documentary short for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Her every documentary is highly controversial and debatable but these are also the reason for her success and international recognition. Sharmeen is the only Pakistani filmmaker to bag several international awards for the country.
The lady We Love To Hate, Have Got Another Award For Her Country.
This time Sharmeen’s work was nominated for 2 categories at Emmys, Outstanding Documentary and Outstanding Music & Sound. On Thursday, Sharmeen tweeted from New York to share this achievement with Pakistanis. Despite all the critics and debate on her documentaries, her work cannot be ignored. She has been voicing all the oppressed women and taking the stories to mainstream media.
Maleeha Lodhi, Sherry Rehman And Many More Tweeted Sharmeen Obaid.
Sharmeen Obaid’s ‘A Girl in the River’ wins best documentary at the Emmys https://t.co/6q1b4IKWe8
— M. Jibran Nasir (@MJibranNasir) October 6, 2017
And Maleeha Lodhi Pakistani Representative To UN Was Also There At With Sharmeen.
Delighted that Sharmeen’s film won such an imp Emmy award @sharmeenochinoy pic.twitter.com/xyoAh8NDl0
— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 6, 2017