SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY

Filmmaker

SOC Films

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a journalist and filmmaker most widely known for her Academy Award-winning documentary shorts “Saving Face” and “Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness.” In Hollywood, the filmmaker also directed two episodes of “Ms. Marvel,” a series about the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Muslim superhero, and she will be the first woman and person of colour to direct a “Star Wars” movie.