Smile Pinki wins oscar nomination

By Aditya Mhatre at 25 January, 2009, 12:01 am

While most of the glamour is being hogged by Slumdog Millionaire, two documentaries for work based on India have been nominated. One of the documentary, Smile Pinki, is a 39 minute film by Megan Mylan about a girl born with lip deformity and the second one, ‘The Final Inch’ by Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant, deals with the battle against polio. So 2 out of 4 nominations in the Best Documentary category are related India and then of course Slumdog Millionaire’s 11 nominations.

It’s a bit sad that the documentaries topics are a bit depressing but then the general theme for most documentaries have a negative undertone. I am sure you can think of hundred of “happy” documentaries but then documentaries usually are revelatory in nature. Smile Pinki documentary was made by Smile Train, a cleft clarity charity (definitely check out the site to know what cleft clarity is) that is hoping to see a big boost in donations with this nominations

Smile Pink Trailer

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