{"id":8486,"date":"2012-02-27T02:20:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2012-02-27T03:12:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T08:12:03","slug":"sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-wins-oscar-for-saving-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-wins-oscar-for-saving-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Wins Oscar For &#8216;Saving Face&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saving Face Trailer (Documentary)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWrk-brFCrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p>Journalist and documentary filmmaker <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharmeen_Obaid-Chinoy\">Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy<\/a> became Pakistan&#8217;s first Oscar winner last night when her film <em><a title=\"Saving Face Official Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savingfacefilm.com\/\">Saving Face<\/a><\/em> won best documentary short.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Saving Face<\/em> tells the story of two women (39-year-old Zakia and 23-year-old Rukhsana) who were severely disfigured after becoming victims of acid attacks. According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingfacefilm.com\/\">to the film&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Every year in Pakistan, at least 100 people are victimized by brutal acid attacks. The majority of these are women, and many more cases go unreported. With little or no access to reconstructive surgery, survivors are physically and emotionally scarred, while many reported assailants \u2013 typically a husband or someone close to the victim \u2013 are let go with minimal punishment from the state.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The film follows Dr. Mohammad Jawad, a British-Pakistani plastic surgeon who traveled back to Pakistan in order to assist Pakistan&#8217;s acid attack victims. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_rvRi6skW-M&amp;feature=youtu.be\">During her acceptance speech<\/a> Obaid-Chinoy dedicated the award to Dr. Jawad, Rukhasana and Zakia, and &#8220;to all the women in Pakistan who are working for change.&#8221; She added, &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up on your dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Hopefully Obaid-Chinoy&#8217;s Oscar win will mean that more people in Pakistan will have the opportunity to see the film. The filmmaker told the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/scene\/2011\/11\/29\/saving-face-filmmaker-on-shooting-documentaries-in-pakistan\/\">Wall Street Journal in November<\/a> that she planned to show the film in private venues and <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/blog\/asia\/interview-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-first-pakistani-oscar-nominee\">recently told the Asia Society<\/a> that &#8220;contractual restraints&#8221; prevented her from showing it to large audiences.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2012\/02\/13\/hbo-documentary-saving-face-debuts-march-8\/119628\/\">HBO will be broadcasting<\/a> <em>Saving Face<\/em> on March 8. Mark your calendars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist and documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy became Pakistan&#8217;s first Oscar winner last night when her film Saving Face won best documentary short. Saving Face tells the story of two women (39-year-old Zakia and 23-year-old Rukhsana) who were severely disfigured after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-wins-oscar-for-saving-face\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,47,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8495,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}