CALIFORNIA – Globally
known Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s second documentary ‘A Girl in
the River: The Price of Forgiveness’ won the Oscar 2016 at the 88th Academy
Award Ceremony here in Hollywood on Sunday.
‘A Girl in The River: The
Price Of Forgiveness’ is among five films which have been chosen for this
year's Academy Award in the Best Documentary- Short Subject category.
In case Sharmeen Obaid
Chinoy’s Documentary, that high spot the issue of honor killings in Pakistan, clutches
this year’s Oscar, it would be the second Academy Award taken by the filmmaker.
Sharmeed Obaid Chinoy holds a rare distinction of being among the nine women
film directors in the world to have won Oscars for non-fiction films.
On February
22, Sharmeen’s Oscar nominated documentary was curtained at a program held at
the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad. On the occasion, Prime Nawaz Sharif
had said that the government was set to express regulation to put a control on
the killings of women in the name of honor.
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