Daily Important Current Affairs CLAT 2019: India shines at Oscars, ‘Period. End of Sentence’ wins Documentary Short Subject

India shines at Oscars, ‘Period. End of Sentence’ wins Documentary Short Subject

          The documentary feature is set in Hapur village outside Delhi, where women lead a quiet revolution as they               fight against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation.

A film on menstruation, set in rural India, titled ‘Period. End of Sentence’, has won the Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category at the 91st Academy Awards.

Award-winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi directed the short film, which was co-produced by Indian producer Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment.

The film came to into being as a part of ‘The Pad Project’, started by students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher, Melissa Berton.

Other documentary shorts nominated in the category were “Black Sheep”, “End Game”, “Lifeboat” and “A Night at the Garden”.

India’s moment at the Oscars comes exactly a decade after A R Rahman and sound engineer Resul Pookutty won the Academy awards for “Slumdog Millionaire” in 2009.