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Oscars 2019: India's 'Period. End of Sentence' wins Documentary Short Subject
Oscars 2019 are finally here and it has something for India too. An India-set film - 'Period. End of Sentence', based on the taboos around menstruation and featuring the real 'Pad Man' Arunachalam Muruganantham, wins the Best Documentary Subject at the 91st Academy Awards.
Los Angeles: Oscars 2019 are finally here and it has something for India too. An India-set film - 'Period. End of Sentence', based on the taboos around menstruation and featuring the real 'Pad Man' Arunachalam Muruganantham, wins the best Documentary Short Subject at the 91st Academy Awards.
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'Period. End of Sentence' was shot in 2016 with Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi in the director's chair and Mandakini Kakar, a junior producer with Indian producer Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment.
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The film is about women in India fighting against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation and delving upon the work of real life 'Pad Man' Arunachalam Muruganathan.
The film is created by The Pad Project, an organisation established by an inspired group of students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher, Melissa Berton.
The 26-minute film follows girls and women in Hapur in northern India and their experience with the installation of a pad machine in their village. It was pitted against "Black Sheep", "End Game", "Lifeboat" and "A Night At The Garden".
"I can't believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar," Zehtabchi said as she got up on the stage to accept the honour.
Zehtabchi and Berton accepted the award with their inspiring words. "I'm not crying because I'm on my period or anything."
"Guneet Monga - know that you have been empowering women all over the world fight for menstrual equality," Zehtabchi said.
Thrilled after the win, Monga tweeted: "We won! To every girl on this earth... know that you are a goddess... if heavens are listening... look MA we put @sikhya on the map."
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