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Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy awarded by British human rights organisation for her documentaries

The People’s Portfolio is honouring her for 'inspiring leadership, great courage and compassion for fellow human beings'.

Images Staff

06 Dec, 2021

Two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has been awarded by British human rights organisation The People’s Portfolio for "inspiring leadership, great courage and compassion for fellow human beings" through her documentaries.

The organisation is founded by Platon, a lauded British portrait and documentary photographer. It aspires to create a visual language that breaks barriers, expands dignity, fights discrimination, and enlists the public to support human rights around the world.

Each year, the organisation hosts a fundraiser to help with their future work and projects and the highlight of the event is a human rights defender being awarded for showing extraordinary leadership. Obaid-Chinoy is receiving this year's award for her directorial efforts in creating extraordinary movies about women’s rights in Pakistan.

Previous winners include Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Denis Mukwege and Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

The People’s Portfolio is holding their annual fundraiser this year on December 8 at 6pm where Platon will be celebrating Obaid-Chinoy and her achievements as well as debuting a short film that he has made on her. The fundraiser aims to generate donations to lift the voices of human rights leaders around the world and give them the resources and tools to amplify their essential stories in 2021and beyond.

Comments

Sane Mind1st Dec 06, 2021 05:07pm

Awards for showing the dark side, which any country would have. Guess glamourising poverty etc., is good business since it brings fame, money, recodnization to people like Ms Sharmeen

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Tanvir Khan Dec 06, 2021 05:59pm

One of the few Pakistanis with a critical conscience. It takes a heart to watch her goosebumps raising documentaries, especially about the acid victims!

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Riaz Dec 06, 2021 07:02pm

Great

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Abdul Dec 06, 2021 07:24pm

What a load of rubbish. Western Elite looking after their own..

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Faisal Ahmad Dec 06, 2021 08:28pm

Ridiculing our country's repo further, this woman keeps producing documentary after documentary on topics and incidents present in every society. Seems as if she is working on some agenda to defame Pak.

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Riazullah Baig Dec 06, 2021 10:47pm

That money and pomp should have been given to build a hospital for rural women instead of wasting it on propaganda agents like Ms. Chenoy

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Kashif Habib Dec 07, 2021 12:01am

one who awarded for defame Pakistan... why not u make a documentary on social evils and rapes being done in US and other western countries

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El Cid Dec 07, 2021 01:04am

What about the Noble Prize? Is she not going to get that one too for her humanitarian work like Mallala?

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Akil Akhtar Dec 07, 2021 03:44am

She is just like our politicians...looting the country to make a living....

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El Cid Dec 07, 2021 03:58am

@Abdul "Western Elite looking after their own" Using her kind to do their dirty work, their exploitive agenda against her own people for pennies, farthings and trinkets.

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Phaja Milka Dec 07, 2021 05:37am

Ms Chinoy has made it her mission to malign Pakistan and make it the laughing stock of the world she has made a lucrative living doing that which she wouldn’t have if she’d highlighted the positive aspects of Pakistan.

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Naeem Ghafoor Dec 07, 2021 07:46am

Thank you UK, Now she can buy three more properties in UK like she did that in the US.

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Dollarman Dec 07, 2021 08:51am

What an honor by dishonoring one's own country!

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Dollarman Dec 07, 2021 08:52am

When will she make a movie about the state and abuse of women in the west?

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Akil Akhtar Dec 07, 2021 09:11am

From teh comments it is obvious masses can see through the farce.....unfortunately our elite cant they keep treating her as a celebrity...

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abs Dec 07, 2021 09:16am

Well done! So sad to read the comments here. The focus seems to be to hide the dark side instead of fixing it. keep up the good work

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Think Dec 07, 2021 11:10am

When is she going to make a documentary human rights violations in the Indian Occupied Kashmir

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Ann Dec 07, 2021 02:24pm

Congratulations! You are one of the very few people who makes us proud Pakistanis.

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Rahella Ali Mohsin Dec 07, 2021 04:18pm

@abs what changes can you see in our society after different documentaries which she has produced so far? Not a single change. First of all her documentaries are for west not for Pakistan. Therefore, it is obvious that her agenda is not to work for bringing positive outcomes but for maligning our country. Secondly, her agenda is to defame Pakistan on every level.

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Jahan Ara Dec 07, 2021 04:25pm

@abs People like you support evils like Malala and Shireen obaid. Unfortunately, you are unable to see the damage which these kind of opportunist are causing. According to your comment she exposes the dark side of our society. Why? For lucrative gains. If not then why we can’t see any fruitful results. In her agenda bringing good for society is not included but making wealth for herself is the main objective.

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Uzma Dec 07, 2021 10:05pm

And what change did she brought to the pakistani society through her documentaries?? She is only good at her work. No public service to Pakistan at all.

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Mahmud Dec 07, 2021 10:14pm

Tohmat Laga Kay apnoon pay Jo ghairoon say dad lay Aisay sukhan faroosh ko mar Jana chahye. A women who earns millions by exposing poor women plight but do nothing practically for them.... So shame

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Jahan Ara Dec 08, 2021 09:09am

@Ann seriously! you are feeling proud that she is defaming your country. Such sad state of affairs. We feel proud when people make sure that we are not being able to raise our heads respectfully anywhere in the world. She is interested only in making money and fame. No sincerity in bringing a positive change in people’s lives. Malala and Sharmeen are also a reason that we are considered as a most awful nation in the world.

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Laila Dec 08, 2021 04:18pm

If you shed light on the very rea social issues faced by our society in Pakistan, then you are apparently a traitor, western puppet, foreign funded and defaming the country. Islam teaches to call out wrong doinga even if it's your family doing it. Sharmeen Obaid has done nothing wrong but the negative reactions show just why this country can't change when we are not even willing to look and honestly discuss the issues. This obsession with the country's image over the issues actually contributing to that image. The issue is not Obaid but those who seek to cover and deny the issues.

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