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Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is the only female director to have been awarded two Academy Awards by the age of 37. Since 2001, she has made over two dozen multi award films in over 16 countries around the world. Her films include Student Athlete, Girl in the river, Song of Lahore, Saving Face, PeaceKeepers and Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret. In 2012, Time Magazine included Sharmeen in their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. That same year the Pakistan Government awarded her with highest civil honor “Hilal -e–Imtiaz ”. In 2013, the Canadian government awarded her a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work in the field of documentary films and the World Economic Forum honored her with a Crystal Award at their annual summit in Davos. In 2017 the International Center for Journalists awarded her the Knight International Journalism Award for her work that led to legislative change. In 2017, Sharmeen was the first artist to co-chair the “World Economic Forum”at Davos. In 2018, Sharmeen was awarded The Eliasson Global Leadership Prize of The Tällberg Foundation for ‘Leadership in a Disrupted World’. Sharmeen holds a Bachelor's degree from Smith college and two masters degrees from Stanford University. In 2018, Smith College awarded her an honorary degree in Fine Arts.

TRANSGENDERS: PAKISTAN’S OPEN SECRET

Many among Pakistan’s transgender community scrape a living through dancing, singing and begging on the streets of Karachi.

PAKISTAN’S TALIBAN GENERATION: CHILDREN OF THE TALIBAN

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates how the war on terror is creating a generation of child terrorists in her homeland – children prepared

IRAQ: THE LOST GENERATION

In the past five years more than four million Iraqis – 20 per cent of the entire population – have been driven from their homes as a re

LIFTING THE VEIL/ AFGHANISTAN UNVEILED

In this film, journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels to Afghanistan to find out how life has changed for women in the five years.

BIRTH OF A NATION

Eight years on from it’s bloody split from Indonesia, one of the world’s youngest democracies is being ravaged by widespread gang viole

ASSIMILATION NO, INTEGRATION YES

Sweden has the reputation of a wealthy, developed, post-industrial society. But beneath this seeming tranquility,

WOMEN OF THE HOLY KINGDOM

In Saudi Arabia, women need permission from their male guardians to study, work and travel.

THE NEW APARTHEID

The film began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in rac

HIGHWAY OF TEARS

Families all along Canada’s Highway 16 – a 425-mile stretch of road that cuts through pine forests, rivers and remote Indigenous reserv

COLD COMFORT

For millions of years, the Indian subcontinent has been slowly crashing into the Himalayan Mountains.

CITY OF GUILT

In the next 30 years the population of the Philippines is set to double to 170 million.

ON A RAZOR’S EDGE

Spring has arrived in Pakistan, and the season has brought a thaw in the Cold War between Pakistan and India,

TERRORS CHILDREN

Terror’s Children is a personal journey of a Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. For ten weeks in the summer of 2002,