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My documentary film ‘A Garden in Shigar‘ has won 3rd place in the Audience Choice Award at the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA. Many thanks to all those who voted. A complete list of the winners is up here. If you would like to support the building of the school garden [...]

From 3quarksdaily: A nice film by young Pakistani film maker Mahera Omar. A note from the film maker: I have a special request. Please vote for my film “A Garden in Shigar” which is competing at the Women’s Voices Now film festival in Los Angeles, USA. . It will only take a nanosecond, I promise! [...]

Please vote for my documentary “A Garden in Shigar” via the ‘like’ button on the Women’s Voices Now: A Short Film Festival’s website here. The festival is a collection of voices from women of all faiths living in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim women living as minorities around the world that fills the void in information [...]

From Huma Beg’s blog on Pakistan’s floods: It was the bullock carts from the days of Mohenjodaro, the ancient civilization of the Indus, that had frozen in time. The wooden wheels, the bullocks with elegant upright horns carting families, and the meagre wares of their homes that took us back immediately to the partition. The [...]

Faiza Ilyas in DAWN: KARACHI, Aug 11: Unplanned coastal development, large-scale land reclamation and a constant discharge of toxic waste into the sea have not only depleted marine resources over the years but have also caused multiple problems for coastal communities who mostly suffer in silence. More here.

Report in The Express Tribune: Shehri-CBE, a Karachi-based non-profit organisation, launched a documentary on “Sahil – the coast of Karachi” at Avari hotel on Wednesday. “We should show it to the bureaucrats and the lawmakers and maybe then they will feel they should do something,” remarked another member of the audience. The documentary explores the [...]

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com A documentary about honor killings in Pakistan.