Tag: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's only Oscar-winning documentary director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy achieved another milestone as she won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for her award-winning...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's only Oscar winning director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy bagged the The Sabeen Mahmud Award for courage.

KARACHI: Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy stated that her film A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness showed Pakistan's best as well as worst side, ARY News reported.

Oscar winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reacted to news of Syed Noor's accusations that she had stole the plot of his film and its title 'The Price of Honour' from 2011.

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly paid tribute to filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who yet again won the Academy Award for the category Best Documentary - Short Subject.

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry kicked off a round of strategic talks with Pakistan on Monday by hailing a documentary film credited with changing attitudes to so-called "honor killings".

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made history by winning Pakistan's first Oscar four years ago. Now she's back in Hollywood, hoping to scoop a second Academy Award for her harrowing film about a teenage girl shot in the face by her own family.

Earning a nomination yet again, Pakistan's very own Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is all set to represent Pakistan once more when she attends the 88th Academy Awards on February 28.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy said her film being nominated for an Academy Award was already a win for her.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said at the screening of 'A girl in the river: The price of forgiveness' that there was no honour in honour killing, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who promised her that the government would do everything to remove the stain of honour killing from Pakistan.

An Oscar-winning filmmaker hopes her latest Academy Award-nominated documentary will help bring tougher laws against honour killings in Pakistan, which account for the deaths of hundreds of women and men each year.