Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-chinoy a Complaint of Acid Attacks Pakistan Wins First Oscar

The committed filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has won the first Oscar of the Pakistani film a documentary in which he denounced acid attacks, one of the country’s national dramas.

The authorities and the Pakistani media today celebrated a triumph joyfully unusual for the Islamic country, used to appear in the collective imagination associated with fundamentalism and terrorism.

“Thank you all for your love and support. Overwhelmed and grateful to God for giving me this opportunity, “said co-director of” Saving Face “supporters of the social network Twitter.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani congratulated in a statement to the artist and announced that his Government will award a civilian award.

The tape, 52 minutes and co-directed by Daniel Junge American, won the award for best short film at the Oscars.

His nomination aroused and for weeks the attention of the press, hungry for any news that feeds the hope of a country beaten by the conflict and the precarious state of the economy.

The cultural industry of Pakistan, always under the shadow of the powerful machinery of India’s film, also appreciate that the world set for once in her by this short.

“Saving Face” focuses on a British-Pakistani physician who visits the country to treat girls and women victims of these attacks.

“The documentary highlights the success of the agents of change but also warns that not enough,” says Valerie Efe Khan, Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), an NGO that worked with the project.

Each year there are about 200 in Pakistan acid attacks, 75 percent to women-as ASF, which is promoting legislative initiatives in the country to punish the men who destroyed these lives.

“The film shows that it is possible to do something about it. It’s about women who are trying to fight for the men who have tried to help them, “Khan summarized.

Julien Fouchet French journalist, who worked for a few days as a cameraman for the documentary, elaborated on the efforts to end this scourge and help victims.

The images recorded for the film were those of “a woman being admitted to the hospital” after being attacked with acid and surgeons in preparation for the operation.

In recent years, organizations defending human rights have tried to agree with the authorities to implement legal initiatives against acid attacks.

The reasons for these atrocities can be the refusal of women to marry, settle scores, blackmail between families, an amount insufficient skills, or the anger of a father for having more girls in a country where the boy promises more economic resources.

The attacks succeed because in Pakistan there is no control over the sale of acids such as sulfuric or nitric acid, which can be purchased without showing identification.

The victims, in the best case, they must undergo extensive plastic surgery.