Tag: Sharmeen Obaid

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy s documentary A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness to make it big

Two-Time Academy Award Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has been nominated at the prestigious 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards, as announced by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in New York yesterday. The documentary has been nominated in three categories, the most for any HBO production this 2017: Best […]

Sharmeen Obaid to exhibit stories refugees

The two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is set to premiere her first immersive experiential exhibition, HOME1947, at the Manchester International Festival 2017. This unique and deeply beautiful exhibition collects stories from people who left their homes and crossed borders during the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent. HOME1947 will display these refugee narratives in […]

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy launches SOC Outreach

Pakistan’s leading production houses, SOC Films, helmed by the two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, has announced the launch of its new platform, SOC Outreach with an aim and commitment to inspire students, encourage debates in schools and colleges and engage the community at large across Pakistan.  SOS Outreach plans to conduct workshops with a […]

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy wins Knight International Journalism Award

Two-Time Academy Award Winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has won the prestigious Knight International Journalism Award 2017 for her reporting across the world for the past two decades. Announced by the International Center for Journalists [ICFJ] in Washington, DC on May 31, 2017, the award recognizes her outstanding efforts to chronicle the human toll of extremism […]