{"id":24187,"date":"2022-02-09T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/patakha-pictures-launches-first-funding-mentorship-programme-to-empower-pakistani-women-filmmakers\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:18:09","slug":"patakha-pictures-launches-first-funding-mentorship-programme-to-empower-pakistani-women-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=24187","title":{"rendered":"Patakha Pictures launches first funding &#038; mentorship programme to empower Pakistani women filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patakha Pictures, is an initiative launched by two-time Academy Award and four-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, in partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute and British Council. The programme is exclusively for women filmmakers and has just announced its first funding and mentorship programme, Pakistan Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Sharmeen took to Instagram and shared the news:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patakha Pictures launches &#8220;Pakistan Stories&#8221;. I am proud to announce the details of our funding &#038; mentorship programme for female Pakistani filmmakers, Pakistan Stories, in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute [SDI] and the British Council!&#8221; she wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CZt8MEtu-Ks\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CZt8MEtu-Ks\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (@sharmeenobaidchinoy)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interested female filmmakers can apply for this programme,&#8221; she continued and added a link in her bio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last date to submit applications is 23rd February 2022, and the announcement of shortlisted applicants will be done shortly after &#8211; the Pakistan Stories programme will commence from March 2022 onwards,&#8221; she announced.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a title=\"Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to empower women storytellers and filmmakers in Pakistan through Patakha Pictures\" href=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-to-empower-women-storytellers-and-filmmakers-in-pakistan-through-patakha-pictures\/\">Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to empower women storytellers and filmmakers in Pakistan through Patakha Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patakha Pictures is a grant which will provide funding and mentorship to the next generation of emerging women filmmakers and storytellers working on powerful, thought-provoking works of fiction and non-fiction. The programme was launched to celebrate 75 years of Pakistan through the female gaze.<\/p>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner\">\n<p>Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who is on a mission to empower women, had earlier released a short film titled <em>Women in Media<\/em> that addresses the struggles and oppression women working in the media industry face on a regular basis. The short film is part of the \u2018White in the Flag\u2019 initiative that aims to give voice to the minorities in Pakistan and highlight the issues they face.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a joint venture between Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy&#8217;s programme, the Scottish Documentary Institute and British Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,37],"tags":[980],"class_list":["post-24187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-news","tag-patakha-picturessharmeen-obaid-chinoysoc-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}