Two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy headlined the inaugural Women’s Initiative luncheon hosted by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in New York, as a keynote speaker.
Addressing a crowd of over 175 academy members, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s talk focused on the power of film to transform the way women see themselves.
She also talked about her mobile cinema initiative ‘Dekh Magar Pyaar Se’, which she launched in 2017 and since has travelled across 300 locations screening films in small towns and villages educating women about their rights, bringing thought provoking films to the youth of Pakistan.
Source: Sharmeen headlines The Academy’s Women Initiative – Daily Times