{"id":2087226,"date":"2025-10-13T07:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2087226"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:57:18","slug":"two-time-academy-award-winner-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-boards-oscar-qualified-short-dont-be-late-myra-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/two-time-academy-award-winner-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-boards-oscar-qualified-short-dont-be-late-myra-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time Academy Award Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Boards Oscar-Qualified Short \u2018Don\u2019t Be Late, Myra\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy<\/a>, the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, has come aboard as executive producer on Afia Nathaniel<\/a>\u2019s short film \u201cDon\u2019t Be Late, Myra,\u201d boosting the project\u2019s profile as it campaigns for the 98th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

The short, which secured Oscar qualification after a strong festival circuit run, reunites Nathaniel with Pakistani storytelling a decade after her feature debut \u201cDukhtar\u201d premiered at Toronto in 2014.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel\u2019s latest work centers on young Myra<\/a> (Innayah Umer<\/a>), a 10-year-old navigating Lahore\u2019s streets alone after missing her ride to school. The film tracks her increasingly dangerous walk home, capturing the threats children face in public spaces. Drawing from her own experiences as a survivor, Nathaniel tackles the often-unspoken issue of child harassment head-on.<\/p>\n

\u201cMyra\u2019s story is both urgent and real,\u201d Obaid-Chinoy said. \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t Be Late, Myra<\/a>\u2019 gives voice to the fears every young girl knows too well, while celebrating the courage…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, has come aboard as executive producer on Afia Nathaniel\u2019s short film \u201cDon\u2019t Be Late, Myra,\u201d boosting the project\u2019s profile as it campaigns for the 98th Academy Awards. The short, which secured Oscar qualification after a strong festival circuit run, reunites Nathaniel with Pakistani storytelling a decade after her feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2087227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2087226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Two-Time-Academy-Award-Winner-Sharmeen-Obaid-Chinoy-Boards-Oscar-Qualified-Short-\u2018Dont.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087228,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087226\/revisions\/2087228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}