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

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.