ISLAMABAD – Two-time Pakistani Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoyhas been nominated for National Association for Multi-Ethnicity inCommunications [NAMIC] Vision Awards 2019 for her collaborative HBO Sportsdocumentary ‘Student Athlete’*.*
These awards acknowledge original content that best reflects the depth andbreadth of the lives, spirit and contributions of people of colour.
*Student Athlete* has been created in association with LeBron James,Maverick Carter and Jamal Henderson at SpringHill Entertainment and SteveStoute at United Masters while it has been co-directed by Sharmeen (HBO’sOscar winners Saving Face and A Girl in the River: The Price ofForgiveness) and Trish Dalton (Bordering on Treason).
*Student Athlete* highlights the complex rules of amateur athletics inAmerica and showing how they influence uncompensated athletes and theirfamilies. It reveals the deceitful world of high-revenue college sports bynarrating the stories of four young men at different stages in their sportscareers.
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Sharmeen is nominated along with other notable nominees including DwayneThe Rock Johnson, Mishel Prada, Sesame Street and Michelle Obama to name afew.
