"Saving Face" - Screening & Conversation with Oscar-Winner Obaid-Chinoy - Event

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"Saving Face" - a Special Screening and Conversation with Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

May 22, 2012, 1:30pm-3:00pm EDT

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U.S. Institute of Peace
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Washington, DC 20037 | Directions

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In February 2012, Pakistan celebrated its first Oscar winner, the Karachi-born and raised Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, whose documentary "Saving Face" won the Academy Award for Documentary (Short Subject). The documentary follows two survivors of acid attacks, Zakia and Rukhsana, highlighting the challenges they face in recovery and in achieving justice. In March, Pakistan received a somber reminder of the depth of these challenges with the suicide of Fakhra Younas, a Pakistani woman grievously wounded in a May 2000 acid attack, for which her ex-husband was acquitted.

Join USIP for a special screening of "Saving Face," followed by a conversation with filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on the documentary, and more broadly on the state of Pakistan's women, and how acid attack violence presents an opportunity for a greater role for women in addressing Pakistan's challenges.

Featuring:

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
Emmy and Academy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker; and
Co-Director, "Saving Face"

Kathleen Kuehnast, moderator
Director, Center for Gender and Peacebuilding
U.S. Institute of Peace

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