http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com The Documentary Films of Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:56:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en stanfordalumni.org Focus on the Forgotten Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy frequents the world's trouble spots to give the voiceless a global hearing. BY DIANE ROGERS PROGRESS REPORT: Obaid-Chinoy revisited Afghanistan in 2007 to see liberation's effect on women. Her findings: too many are still abused and downtrodden. Photo: Ethan Hill For anyone who has seen Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's latest ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/526 By Jackie Saffir/Daily News correspondent GHS WALTHAM — The struggles of Iraqi refugees displaced by war and sectarian violence will hit close to home Monday during a screening of a new documentary. Award-winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will present her film, "Iraq: The Lost Generation," at the Landmark Embassy Cinema on Pine Street. Obaid-Chinoy, a graduate ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/531 metrobostonnews.com Smith grad’s documentary on Iraq focuses on the ordinary people affected by war INTERVIEW. A native of Pakistan and a graduate of Smith College, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an award-winning journalist who has made 13 documentary films. Her latest film, “Iraq: The Lost Generation,” examines the plight of Iraqi refugees displaced due ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/527 thequestforit.com On a recent Saturday evening West Chelsea's Gana Art Gallery hosted a most powerful documentary on the plight of children in Iraq.  Entitled Iraq The Lost Generation, the event is to benefit the non-profit Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.   Journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's The Lost Generation, currently being screened across ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/532 Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's new dispatch about the state of affairs in Pakistan is part of PBS Frontline World's Election 2008 series: The World is Watching http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/521 Video Interview and Dispatch: Our correspondent in Karachi describes a country in civil war BY Joe Rubin Joe Rubin is curator and presenter of FRONTLINE/World's iWitness, an ongoing series of interviews with reporters and newsmakers in flashpoint regions across the world. >>see the video interview here Our reporter in Pakistan says the next U.S. ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/522 by Shagufta Kalim Kolkata: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, a documentary filmmaker from Pakistan, likes to travel the road not taken. And it has literally taken her to oil rich Saudi Arabia, war ravaged Afghanistan and the highways of Canada. In her latest film Birth of a Nation, she explores the plight of the ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/421 This week Andrew Marr is joined by Lord Ashdown, General Sir Michael Rose, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Richard Littlejohn. When Britain and America went into Afghanistan in 2001, they claimed that the liberation of women would be one of their main priorities. Did they deliver? Award-winning Pakistani journalist and documentary filmmaker, ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/324 http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/30 womensmediacenter.com Documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is touring the United States with her latest film, “The Lost Generation," a documentary on Iraq’s refugee children produced for Great Britain’s prestigious TV station Channel 4. So far, Obaid-Chinoy has been unable to find a U.S. station to televise the documentary. “A ... http://sharmeenobaidfilms.com/archives/525