Saving Face is the story of two women from Southern Punjab who are victims of acid violence.
In her acceptance speech, Obaid-Chinoy dedicated the award to all the women in Pakistan and 'heroes' working in the country.
The documentary, which is filmed across Islamabad, Rawalpindi and the small towns of Punjab, released in the US in November. It is due to release in the UK in March 2012, following which it will be released in Pakistan.
Obaid-Chinoy has also received the Emmy award for her documentary Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010.
The film follows one woman as she fights to see that the perpetrators of the crime are imprisoned for life.
The documentary competed against 'God Is the Bigger Elvis,' a Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson film about a mid-century starlet who chose the church over Hollywood; 'The Barber of Birmingham,' a Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday film that follows the life of 85-year-old barber James Armstrong and the legacy of the civil rights movement; James Spione’s war film 'Incident in New Baghdad'; and 'The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,' a film by Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen that follows survivors of Japan s 2011 earthquake and their struggle to recover from the wave that crushed their homes and lives.
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