Saving Face

Name: Saving Face
Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Released: 2012-01-01

2012 film by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Daniel Junge

Filmshort filmQ1317801

Released: 2012
Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
, Daniel Junge
Runtime: 40 min
Genre: documentary film
Country of origin: United States
, Pakistan
Original language: English
Production company: HBO Documentary Films
Distributor: HBO
, Fandango

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Saving Face is a 2012 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge about acid attacks on women in Pakistan. The film won an Emmy Award and the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, making its director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistan's first Oscar winner. The film was inspired from the life of acid victim Fakhra Younus, who died by suicide in 2012.

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Main subject: health care
Website: savingfacefilm.com
Title: Saving Face
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)(January 24, 2012) nominee: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy · statement is subject of: 84th Academy Awards
Color: color
Distribution format: video on demand
Assessment: Bechdel test assessment outcome: passes · criterion used: considering named characters only
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1.Stated in Bechdel Test Movie ListRetrieved 2017-12-10
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