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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoyچنائے عبید شرمین

Obaid-Chinoy at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013

Born 12 November 1978Karachi, Pakistan

Residence Karachi, Pakistan

Nationality Pakistani

Occupation Documentary filmmaker

Known for Saving Face (2012)Pakistan's Taliban Generation/ Children of the Taliban(2009)Afghanistan Unveiled/Lifting the Veil (2007)Iraq: The Lost Generation (2008)First Pakistani to win an Oscar.

Religion Islam

Website

Official website [1]

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (Urdu:چنائے عبید شرمین; born 1978), is an Emmy and Oscar award-winningPakistani-Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker.[2][3] She won an Academy Award for her documentary,Saving Face in 2012. She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010.[4][5] She isalso the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.[5][6] She has been lauded asPakistan's first female Oscar winner by the press and government [7] [8].[9]

The Pakistani President conferred the Hilal-e-Imtiaz on Obaid-Chinoy on 23 March 2012, for bringing honor toPakistan as a filmmaker.[10] Time magazine has named Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy within their annual list of the 100most influential people in the world for 2012.[11][12][13][14][15] Sharmeen was ranked 37th on Desiclub.com’s list ofthe 50 Coolest Desis of 2009.

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Early lifeObaid-Chinoy was born into a Muslim family Karachi to well-off Gujarati speaking parents, Sheikh Obaid the CEOof Toweller's Factory and Saba Obaid. She attended the Karachi Grammar School.

CareerObaid-Chinoy began writing investigative pieces at the age of fourteen as a way to contribute to critical conversationin Pakistan. She was always interested in telling stories of marginalized communities; people whose voices werenever heard and whose compelling stories needed to be shared. She continued to pursue journalism while she was atSmith and wrote for a number of Canadian and American publications. In December 2001, Obaid-Chinoy returned toPakistan and spent time in refugee camps and went back to the US with a documentary proposal in hand. At the ageof twenty two, with no prior experience, she sent letters to eighty news companies and organizations in the US, andwas declined by all of them. Eventually, Bill Abrams, the president of New York Times Television gave her her bigbreak. She returned to Pakistan to produce Terror's Children. [16]Obaid-Chinoy was a faculty member in the media sciences department at SZABIST (Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali BhuttoInstitute of Science and technology, Karachi). She started her film company, SOC Films, in Karachi in November2011. [17] Obaid-Chinoy is also the president of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, a non profit organizationdedicated to Cultural and Historic Preservation. (CAP).[18]

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. Her recentfilms include SAVING FACE, TRANSGENDERS: PAKISTAN’S OPEN SECRET AND PAKISTAN’S TALIBANGENERATION, which aired on PBS, Channel 4, CBC, SBS and Arte and was the recipient of the Alfred I DupontAward as well as The Association for International Broadcasting award. Sharmeen has made over a dozen-multiaward winning films in over 10 countries around the world and is the first non-American to be awarded theLivingston Award for best international reporting. In 2012 Time Magazine included her in the magazine’s annual listof the 100 most influential people in the world.In 2007, Sharmeen was awarded the broadcast journalist of the year award in the UK by One World Media for herwork in a series of documentary films for Channel 4, which included a film about xenophobia in South Africa THENEW APARTHEID and AFGHANISTAN UNVEILED. Her other films have been awarded The Overseas PressClub Award, The American Women in Radio and Television Award, The Cine Golden Eagle award and the BanffRockie Award.Sharmeen’s work centers around human rights and women’s issues and she has worked with refugees andmarginalized communities from Saudi Arabia to Syria and from Timor Leste to the Philippines.[19]In May 2012, From more than 4300 entries in 10 categories, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's film, Transgenders -Pakistan's Open Secret won the Platinum Remi Award at the 45th WorldFest Film Festival.Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy was acknowledged with a Lux Style Achievement award on The 11th Lux Style Awards.Lux Style Awards Widely acknowledged to be the Oscars of Pakistan. She is the youngest-ever recipient for the LuxStyle Achievement award. In Late July, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy got nominated as SAARC Goodwill Ambassadorfor HIV/AIDS. In August 2012, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy received a nominee for the Gucci Award for Women fordocumentary 'Saving Face' as a director. In December 2012, Sharmeen's Saving Face won Best Short Award at the28th annual IDA Documentary Awards and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has been voted one of the top five millennialwomen who has been fighting against domestic and societal violence. In late 2012, 'Saving Face' has received theJulian-Bartel Award and the 2012 Abu Dhabi Film Festival Audience Choice Award.Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy received the Crystal Award during the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting2013 in Davos 22 January 2013. Sharmeen is the first Pakistani to be awarded this honor.

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References[1] http:/ / sharmeenobaidfilms. com[2] Canadian Broadcast Company's Post-Oscar interview with Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy http:/ / www. cbc. ca/ video/ news/ audioplayer.

html?clipid=2202643558[3] Oscar-winning Pakistani-Canadian Filmmaker Inspired by Canada http:/ / www. cbc. ca/ news/ arts/ story/ 2012/ 02/ 28/

oscar-saving-face-obaid-chinoy. html[4] Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wins an Emmy for Pakistan (http:/ / www. globalpost. com/ webblog/ pakistan/

sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-wins-emmy-pakistan) 28 September 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2010[5] Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Wins Emmy for "Children of the Taliban" (http:/ / pakistaniat. com/ 2010/ 10/ 02/ sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-emmy/ )

All Things Pakistan. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2011[6] Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is Pakistan’s Second Oscar Academy Award winner. (http:/ / www. dawn. com/ 2012/ 01/ 24/

sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-is-pakistan�s-first-oscar-nominee. html) Dawn 24 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2011[7] http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ news/ world-asia-17180530[8] http:/ / www. guardian. co. uk/ commentisfree/ 2012/ mar/ 01/ pakistan-oscar-winner-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy[10] http:/ / tribune. com. pk/ story/ 353949/ salmaan-taseer-meera-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-to-be-decorated-with-civil-awards/[16] http:/ / alumni. stanford. edu/ get/ page/ magazine/ article/ ?article_id=30910[17] http:/ / socfilms. com/[18] About Us (http:/ / citizensarchive. org/ aboutus. php) Citizen's Archive of Pakistan. Retrieved 27 February 2012[19] http:/ / sharmeenobaidfilms. com/ bio/

External links• Website for Sharmeen Obaid Films (http:/ / www. sharmeenobaidfilms. com)• Sharmeen Obaid Oscar Award Photos (http:/ / xtremefast. com/ showbiz/

sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-gets-pakistan-its-first-oscar-award-for-saving-face. html)• LUMS 2012 Convocation Address (http:/ / lums. edu. pk/ news-detail/

convocation-2012-address-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-633)• Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Oscar award (http:/ / www. agaaz. com/ article/ 163/

Sharmeen-Obaid-Chinoy-Won-First-Ever-Oscar-for-Pakistan. html)• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (http:/ / www. wmm. com/ filmcatalog/ makers/ fm825. shtml) at Women Make Movies

(http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Women_Make_Movies)

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