HBO The film follows Pinki Sonkar and her family as doctors repair her cleft lip.
Posted on 06/03/2009 5:22:56 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Edited on 06/03/2009 9:37:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The documentary's Academy Award win puts it on the cable giant's radar.
Sometimes winning an Oscar means more than bigger bucks for your next flick.
Once in a while, it can even make the world a better place.
That's the case with Megan Mylan, who won the Academy Award in February for her short documentary "Smile Pinki," which follows a young Indian girl and boy, Pinki Sonkar and Ghutaru Chauhan, as Pinki's cleft lip and Ghutaru's cleft palate are repaired. The film was commissioned and funded by the American charity Smile Train, a group that pays local doctors in 75 developing countries to perform the simple surgery that parents of such children rarely know is possible.
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HBO The film follows Pinki Sonkar and her family as doctors repair her cleft lip.
Is it just media portrayal that India has so many kids with birth defects? I seem to see more stories like this from India than from any other country. I assume some of it is just that, with over a billion people, the raw number of defects is higher, but that can’t explain all of it. India isn’t that badly polluted, like Russia, just dirty.
One of the main reasons for a high incidence of birth defects in India is the poor standard of maternal healthcare in several parts of the country-malnutriotion of mothers is not uncommon.
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