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India-based Documentaries on Polio, Cleft Lip Up for Oscars
Published on MonstersAndCritics.com via Deutsche Presse-Agentur: February 20, 2009
New Delhi — Friends and family of Pinki Sonkar and Mohammad Gulzar Saifi will stay awake in their homes in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state Sunday to catch the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on their televisions.
Eight-year-old Pinki and Saifi, 26, are not part of the cast of Slumdog Millionaire, the rags-to-riches story from the Mumbai slums that is a favourite for the Oscars.
They appear in two separate short documentary films about health issues in India which have been nominated in the Documentary (Short) category...
Smile Pinki was made by Principe Productions, a non-profit film production company supported by the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
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