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SOC Films
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Career
On 23 March 2012, Pakistan's president conferred the second highest civilian award, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, on Obaid-Chinoy for bringing honour to Pakistan as a filmmaker. The same year Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was ranked 37th on Desiclub.com's list of the 50 Coolest Desis of 2009. In 2012, Obaid-Chinoy released the 5-part series Ho Yaqeen (To Believe). In 2014, SOC Films and Obaid-Chinoy released Aghaz-e-Safar, a 12-episode series for Aaj News which tackled issues affecting ordinary Pakistanis across the country including child abuse, domestic violence, issues of gun violence, water scarcity, land grabbing etc. She holds the records for being the first female film director to have won two Academy Awards by the age of 37 and the first person of Pakistani origin to be nominated for (and to win) the Academy Award for best documentary in the short subject category, and the first person of Pakistani origin to win any Academy Award.