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Pakistan is a country surrounded by complex issues and I am passionate about addressing them. One of these issues is Pakistan’s relationship with India.
Ever since the independence of Pakistan and India in 1947, they have repeatedly been at war with each other and there seems to be no end to it. The two countries have fought 4 wars with hundreds of thousands of casualties and refugees. Even when both countries have half their population living on less than $2/day, they spend more on their military than education, poverty relief and social services combined. The strife is fueled by political interests that benefit from such conflict and the conflict has no place in today’s world. (Know more about it and support the cause by donating or spreading the word)
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By Angelina Jolie:
Pakistan’s first Oscar belongs to a monumental campaign that is changing the legal, social and political fate of survivors of acid-related violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary Saving Face brought Pakistan’s acid-violence problem to the world stage. Today she is bringing the film’s message to towns and villages in Pakistan through an educational-awareness campaign. Her film not only gave her subjects sympathy and understanding but, more important, gave them dignity. The “victims” in Saving Face are some of the strongest, most impressive women you will ever come across. She showed us their scars, and we saw their true beauty.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112152,00.html #ixzz1sSf6AQKA
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy brings home an Oscar
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s “Saving Face” won the Oscar for documentary short at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, making her the first Pakistani to win an Oscar award.
The Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy film follows British plastic surgeon Dr. Mohammad Jawad, who returns to his homeland to help victims of acid burns. The film follows one woman as she fights to see that the perpetrators of the crime are imprisoned for life. (complete news here, previously)
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“Saving Face” Pakistan’s first Academy Award nomination
LAHORE, February 24, 2012 – On 26th February 2012, the world will discover three different faces of Pakistan during the 84th Academy Awards, with the nomination of a Pakistani documentary ‘Saving Face’for the best documentary (short subject).
The first face is the Pakistani filmmaker who is contending for the Oscar, the second is the internationally acclaimed British-Pakistani plastic surgeon who traveled to his motherland to heal victims of acid attacks, and last but not the least is of the heroic survivors of acid attacks who are struggling to deal with the consequences of their disfigurement.
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Mir Zafar Ali is a Pakistani visual effects specialist who has brought Oscars and BAFTA awards to Pakistan, for his visual effects in 2007’s “The Golden Compass”, which even beat “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Transformers” released in the same year.
He has also been associated with visual effect treats such as “X-Men: First Class”, Spiderman III (for his character “Venom”) (2007), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Land of the Lost (2009), Ghost Rider (2007), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), and Monster House (2006). Monster House is part of the American Film Institute’s Top 10 animated films for the year 2006. It was also nominated for an Oscar for the best animated film, as well as a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award, but failed to win any of them. Spiderman too was nominated for a BAFTA, Annie Award and a Saturn Award (by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films)
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides poster has a Pakistani 5 Rupee coin in it!
Well if you don’t believe us check the original poster at imdb. Remember you first heard it here ;)
p.s. for those who don’t know what a Pakistani 5 Rupee coin looks like, click here.
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Zinda Laash, or The Living Corpse: Dracula in Pakistan (1967) (via darknesswillsaveyou)
A classic Pakistani horror film being remastered and you can watch its opening scene here, or read more about it on Wikipedia and Imdb. This was also Pakistan’s first X-rated film and therefore ended up being heavily censored in Pakistan.
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Home-grown talent: Oscar-winning visual effects artist makes Karachi look so good
Visual effects specialist Mir Zafar Ali started his career by creating the immaculate sheet of hair that cascades around a shampoo model’s face. Since then, the Beaconhouse and FAST graduate from Karachi has scooped up an Oscar for the brilliant sequences in The Golden Compass in 2007 that beat those in The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End andTransformers. The world can also thank him for bringing the villain ‘Venom’ to life in Spider-Man III. Now, he’s basking in the aftermath of another success, X-Men: First Class – the debuted at No. 1 in the box office in its opening weekend. If any young artist in Karachi thinks it can’t be done, they just need to follow Mir Zafar Ali’s career.
Ali began with doing what a lot of people in the visual effects field do – something unrelated. Having studied to be a software engineer in college, he quickly realised it wasn’t nearly exciting enough. He spent some time trying his hand at the trade with local organisations such as Sharp Image and Nucleus Studios… (complete article here, via peculiarlyentrusted)
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Bol is an upcoming Urdu film written, directed and produced by Shoaib Mansoor expected to release on 24 June 2011, starring Atif Aslam, Mahira Khan, Iman Ali and Humaima Abbasi. “It’s been a great experience working with Shoaib Mansoor, he is an amazing person and very dedicated. The film is about Sunnis and Shias. It’s a film that is being made for a good cause” - Atif Aslam
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