Pakistani documentaries 'A Girl in the River' and 'Among the Believers' nominated for Emmy's

Sharmeen Obaid and Mohammed Ali Naqvi will be heading to the Emmy's this year for their documentaries

Updated 26 Jul, 2017

Pakistani filmmakers Sharmeen Obaid and Mohammad Ali Naqvi have much to look forward to this year as their documentaries have been nominated for the 38th annual news and documentary Emmy Awards.

Sharmeen, however, has more reason to rejoice as her documentary A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has earned three nominations in categories Best Documentary, Outstanding Short Documentary and Outstanding Music and Sound.

Naqvi's film Among The Believers has been nominated in category Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary. The documentary, which has been banned in Pakistan, won two awards at Doc Edge, an international documentary film festival in New Zealand.

Documentary The Secret Life of Muslims, produced by and featuring Iranian-American author Reza Aslan, has been nominated in category Outstanding Short Documentary and will be competing against Sharmeen's A Girl In The River for the award.

Sharmeen Obaid previously won an Emmy for her documentary Children of Taliban and two Emmys for Saving Face. She has also bagged Oscars for Saving Face and A Girl in the River.

Check out the full list here.

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented on Oct 5th in New York.

Comments

aqsa Jul 26, 2017 11:45am

please tell me about publishng of latter to editor.information to all procedure

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Saif Zulfiqar Jul 26, 2017 01:00pm

No need to ban any programmes in Pakistan. Everybody can watch these banned programmes on Internet nowadays.

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s Jul 26, 2017 02:25pm

I hope this time Sharmeen has highlighted positive aspects of Pakistani society.Or she has done the usual job to be nominated again. Someone has to stand up and highlight all the sacrifices made by our people so the world knows what we have gone through.

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Abdul majeed sheikh Jul 26, 2017 04:35pm

I hope she will visit London and make a documentary for Acid attacks

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Haider khan Jul 26, 2017 05:31pm

@s 100% right.

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Oswald Saldanha Jul 27, 2017 08:04am

Sharmeen Obaid Congratulations on your documentary being nominated for a Emmy Award, you make the nation proud, keep up the good work. Sharmeen please produce a documentary on the plight and sexual abuse of street boy's of Peshawar, these boy's are between the ages of 8 - 12 years old. They number approximately 4 Million I understand. Please use the proceeds of this documentary and donations from your contacts in Lollywood , Bollywood and Hollywood and build Rehabilitation Centres for these young boy's, who could be saved from sexual exploitation and become productive citizens of Pakistan. Thank You Sharmeen, you rock.

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Raja Jul 27, 2017 10:10am

I would love t see a movie on forced conversions in pakistan.

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