Saving face

• ISLAMABAD — The film "Saving Face," which took home the Oscar for best documentary short subject Sunday night, highlighted revenge acid attacks against women in Pakistan.
(Washington Post)
• Its easy to think of the Oscars as just an evening of self-congratulatory fluff. But every once in a while, the Academy pays attention to a film with the power to really change lives.
(YAHOO!)
• BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" lost out Sunday night on the the Academy Award for best documentary short subject, which instead went to the Pakistani film Saving Face.
(Birmingham News)
• Los Angeles, Feb 27 (PTI) Pakistani film Saving Face, by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, won the Documentary (Short Subject) Academy Award this year.
(MSN India)
• Obaid-Chinoys film, Saving Face, chronicles the struggles of acid-attack survivors as well as the efforts of a British Pakistani doctor who performs reconstructive surgery on women disfigured in such attacks.
(Los Angeles Times)
• While most Denverites were likely sleeping, Oscar-winner Daniel Junge, whose "Saving Face" won for best short documentary, was partying at Vanity Fair's annual fete. The local luminary texted this photo in the wee hours.
(Denver Post)
• Pakistani documentary film Saving Face, which uncovers the story of hundreds of people, mostly women who become acid attack victims, was honoured with the Oscar award for best documentary (short) at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony here.
(Hindustan Times)
• DOCUMENTARY Saving Face about the work of Birmingham charity Islamic Help and its campaign to treat women injured in acid attacks has won an Oscar.
(Birmingham Post.net)
• Dr. Mohammad Jawad examines Zakia's face. The Pakistani-born plastic surgeon left his successful practice in London to help women from his homeland who had been affected by horrific acid attacks.
(Idaho Mountain Express)