Two-time Oscar-profitable filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has gained a Humanitarian Award for her documentary Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers on the RiverRun Worldwide Movie Pageant held yearly in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reviews the Winston-Salem Journal. Sharmeen shares the award together with her co-director, the Emmy award-profitable filmmaker Geeta Gandhbir.
Sharmeen devoted the award to the themes of her documentary, three Bangladeshi ladies who have been deployed to earthquake-stricken Haiti in 2010 as members of the UN peacekeeping mission.
“The position of United Nations peacekeepers is a real ‘mission unattainable,’ dropping troopers who actually do not converse one another’s languages into overseas nations rife with chaos and violence. Something that goes mistaken can turn out to be a world incident. Good luck,” reads the outline about Peacekeepers on the web site of Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, the place the documentary premiered.
By telling these ladies’s tales, they hoped to shatter stereotypes about Muslim ladies.
The documentary not solely particulars their gruelling journey all through the mission the place they’re thought-about with distrust, but in addition their return residence, the place they face challenges of a special type: familial disapproval of leaving residence for work.
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