A GIRL IN THE RIVER Wins Oscar for Documentary Short Subject
By: Caryn Robbins Feb. 28, 2016
A GIRL IN THE RIVER: THE PRICE OF FORGIVENESS' Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has won the Oscar Documentary Short Film. This is the second Academy Award nomination for Obaid-Chinoy. She was previously nominated for:
SAVING FACE (2011)Winner, Documentary (Short Subject)
Other films nominated in the category include: Body Team 12, Chau, beyond the Lines, Last Day of Freedom and Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of Shoah
About the film: Every year, more than 1,000 girls and women are the victims of religiously motivated honor killings in Pakistan, especially in rural areas. Eighteen-year-old Saba, who fell in love and eloped, was targeted by her father and uncle but survived to tell her story.
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