The ever-pioneering Academy Award and Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy proudly announces the launch of her latest platform, Neela Asmaan – an international artist residency program for emerging and established artists from Pakistan and around the world. Neela Asmaan, a project of SOC Films, will offer artists the opportunity to take inspiration from their […]
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SOC Films’ International Series ‘FUNDAMENTAL. GENDER JUSTICE. NO EXCEPTIONS.’
It was announced yesterday that SOC Films, a Karachi based film production house, spearheaded by two-time Academy Award and four-time Emmy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, has been nominated in two categories at the prestigious 48th Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards for its international documentary series “FUNDAMENTAL. GENDER JUSTICE. NO EXCEPTIONS”, by The National Academy of Television […]
SOC Films releases the Siyani Sahelian documentary
SOC Films has released the “Siyani Sahelian – Advancing Action of Adolescent Girls” documentary on YouTube. The documentary highlights SOC Films’ collaborative flagship program with Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) focusing on girls’ education in South Punjab. Launched in March 2018, Siyani Sahelian is a program which aims to tackle gender inequality for disadvantaged out of school adolescent […]
Sharmeen Obaid launches Pakistan’s first minorities’ platform, “WHITE IN THE FLAG”
Two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy proudly launches Pakistan’s first dedicated digital platform for the minorities, “WHITE IN THE FLAG”. An SOC Films initiative, https://whiteintheflag.com will highlight important issues that affect minorities living in Pakistan, while attempting to create a discourse about the experience of being a minority in Pakistan. Indeed, embracing a digital mindset […]
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY HOSTED THE PREMIERE FOR “SITARA: LET GIRLS DREAM” IN KARACHI
Two-time Academy and three-time Emmy Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy hosted the premiere of her latest animation short film, SITARA: LET GIRLS DREAM at Nueplex Cinemas in Karachi on 9th March 2020. SITARA was released on International Women’s Day [8th March 2020] on Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service, in over 190 countries. Indeed, SITARA […]
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY reveals her latest animation film “SITARA: LET GIRLS DREAM”
Two-time Academy and three-time Emmy Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s proudly reveals her latest animation film, SITARA: LET GIRLS DREAM which opened in theaters in New York on September 23rd, 2019. The fifteen-minute animated short film chronicles the life of a young girl whose dream of being a pilot is crushed when she is forced into […]
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy picks up another award
…and we think this is the stuff dreams are made of… So proud of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy winning the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards in the International Television category for her documentary A girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness . The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that […]
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar Winning Documentary Nominated At The Prestigious 76th Peabody Awards
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has been nominated at the prestigious 76th Annual Peabody Awards in the Documentary Category. The documentary had previously won an Oscar at the 88th Academy Awards and the coveted Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, in 2016. The Oscar winning SOC Films and Home […]