Chicken & Egg Films Nominated for Best Documentary by the Academy Awards

[Source: Chicken & Egg Pictures, January 24, 2012]

Saving FaceThe Barber of Birmingham

What a way to kick off 2012! Chicken & Egg Pictures is proud to congratulate The Barber of Birmingham, directed by Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday, and Saving Face, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Daniel Junge, Academy Award nominees in the Short Documentary category! 
 
The Barber of Birmingham, executive produced by Chicken & Egg Pictures and produced by Gail Dolgin, Robin Fryday and Judith Helfand, features 85-year-old Mr. James Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. The Barber of Birmingham is slated for broadcast on POV later this year.
 
Saving Face, a recent Liberty grantee of Chicken & Egg Pictures' newly launched Mother Wit human rights film fund, follows British-Pakistani plastic surgeon Dr. Jawad as he travels to Pakistan and treats survivors of acid violence who are attempting to restore their lives and to seek remedies through the Pakistani legal system and Parliament. Saving Face will have its broadcast debut in the spring of 2012 on HBO and More 4 in the U.K.
 
Chicken & Egg Pictures congratulates all who worked on these documentaries!