Colombo: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar winning documentary Saving Face, the acclaimed Pakistani movie on victims of acid attacks, has won the best documentary prize at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.
The film chronicles the work of a British-Pakistani plastic surgeon who rebuilds the faces of women disfigured by acid attacks. Pakistani director Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani bagged the silver medal in the feature film category.
During the SAARC Film Awards ceremony held in Colombo, Pakistan bagged its first award for Saving Face.
The award for best actor was shared by Pakistani actors Manzar Sehbai and Rashid Farooqi for their roles in the feature films Bol and Ramchand Pakistani, respectively.
The best feature film trophy was awarded to Sri Lanka’s Akasa Kusum directed by Prasanna Vithanage. The film depicts the golden age of cinema as seen through the memories of an ageing actress.
The bronze medal in the feature film category went to India’s Byari directed by K P Suveeran.
The runner-up award in the documentary category was bagged by Sri Lanka’s The Great School Teacher directed by Mayri Wanaguru. The best actress award went to Sri Lanka’s Malini Fonseka for her role in Akasa Kusum while Bangladesh’s Morshedul Islam won the best director award for Khelaghar.
The SAARC Film Festival attracted nominations from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Well-known film directors from Singapore, Iran and Russia were adjudicators for the film awards. The competition this year was held for two categories feature and documentary films.
Directors of some of the nominated films from Bangladesh, India and the Maldives attended the festival, which included a workshop on “Film vs digital the impending extinction of the celluloid cinema and the challenges ahead.
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