Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has launched a funding & mentorship grant. The programme is called Patakha Pictures, and it aims to empower women storytellers and filmmakers in Pakistan.
The two-time Oscar winner took to social media to announce the launch of the new platform and shared that she wants to ’empower, promote & support the next generation of women filmmakers and storytellers in Pakistan’ to create powerful, thought-provoking works of fiction and non-fiction.
“Telling stories that matter is important to me and I also know how hard it is to find the finances and mentorship to do so…,” she began.
Revealing the details, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wrote,
“At SOC films we routinely get emails, calls and visits from young women across Pakistan who want to be able to tell their stories and so today I’m launching a platform that I hope will help them do so! A small grants and mentorship program for female filmmakers across Pakistan who want to work in short form storytelling…I hope in a few years from now this platform will enable a filmmaker to represent our country at @theacademy“
