Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy with her Oscar. PHOTO: FILE
Best Documentary
Outstanding Editing Documentary and Long Form
Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
Outstanding Cinematography Documentary and Long Form
Outstanding Research
The documentary film is about horrific acid violence and its traumatic affects on victims. The story follows the lives of two survivors, Zakia and Rukhsana, and their attempt to bring their assailants to justice. These women are helped by NGOs and doctors, including plastic surgeon Dr Mohammad Jawad, who returns to Pakistan from London to help.
The excellent work done by Obaid-Chinoy and her team proved itself once again. We’d like to congratulate the team of Saving Face for their hard work and for making Pakistan feel proud. The 34th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented on October 1 in New York.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 13th, 2013.
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@Umer What are you on about? When Salman Rushdie was awarded "Knighthood" & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy the "Oscar" how do you extrapolate that the West is Insulting us? This twisted manner of interpretation is the cause of inferior complex saturating a huge population of our society. The lack of common sense on your part is not being able to recognise real talent and separate it from you biased view of the West. I think they have better things to do then plot and scheme to insult people.
About 'saving face' - Pakistanis should have at least some common sense to know when someone is insulting you. West will always use ONE OF YOU to insult you ... Salman Rushdie was awarded knighthood and this sharmain was awarded Oscar ...
@Np: What isn't banned in Pakistan? We think that by banning content we can control peoples thought process like North Korea? Pakistani people have little backbone to fight for their God given rights they are satisfied of outside forces controlling them. They complain all the time while blaming their sorry existence on others but do very little to change the status quo. The tepid support that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy got was very sad considering she was the first women to get world recognition. People blamed her for putting an important issue on film she never claimed that it was an epidemic behavior pattern but her critics lashed at her as a pawn for foreign interest to put a bad spotlight on Pakistan as if there need any spotlight on the sad state of affairs in Pakistan social crisis.
But was banned in Pakistan