Pakistan wins its first Oscar ‘Saving Face’
‘Saving Face’ produced by Sharmeen Obaid won the Oscar for feature documentary
Published Monday, February 27, 2012
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen
Obaid-Chinoy accept the Oscar for the Best Documentary Short Subject for
their film "Saving Face" at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood,
California, February 26, 2012. (REUTERS)
The Pakistani documentary
‘Saving Face’ produced by Sharmeen Obaid won the Oscar for feature
documentary at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.
In the history of Oscars, it was the first time ever that a Pakistani documentary was nominated and won award in 84 years.
Directed by Daniel Junge
and produced by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the film follows British plastic
surgeon Dr. Mohammad Jawad, who returns to his homeland to help victims
of acid burns. The film follows one woman as
she fights to see that the perpetrators of the crime are imprisoned for
life.
The documentary competed
against “God Is the Bigger Elvis,” a Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
film about a mid-century starlet who chose the church over Hollywood;
“The Barber of Birmingham,” a Gail Dolgin and
Robin Fryday film that follows the life of 85-year-old barber James
Armstrong and the legacy of the civil rights movement; James Spione’s
war film “Incident in New Baghdad”; and “The Tsunami and the Cherry
Blossom,” a film by Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
that follows survivors of Japan's 2011 earthquake and their struggle to
recover from the wave that crushed their homes and lives
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