Pakistan's Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Wins Oscar For Documentary On"Honour Killings"

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 (Bernama) -- An Academy and Emmy Award winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won her second Academy Award Oscar for her film 'A Girl In The River: The Price of Forgiveness' in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category. The film which highlights the issue of honour killings in Pakistan, tells the story of a 19-year-old Pakistani girl, who survives an attempted honour killing for marrying a man without her family's approval. According to a statement by Pakistan Press Foundation (PFF), Chinoy, who is also a graduate of its six-week journalism training programme, won the first Oscar in 2012, for 'Saving Face', a documentary on women who suffer acid attacks. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had met Chinoy and pledged to bring legislation to end honour killing, said that his government was in the process of pushing a law to stop the killings, the statement said. "Women like Chinoy are not only a pride for the Pakistani nation but are also a significant source of contribution towards the march of civilisation in the world," the statement quoted the prime minister as saying. International reports said that Chinoy, 37, has reported, produced and directed over a dozen documentary films. She is also believed to be the only Pakistani to win two Oscars todate. Apart from the two Oscars, she has also won two Emmy Awards for her documentaries in 2010 and 2013, and was awarded the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (The Crescent of Distinction), Pakistan's second highest civilian award, in 2012, soon after she won her first Oscar. --BERNAMA