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.
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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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hopingpakistan:
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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