The complete and confirmed list of all Oscar nominees has been unveiled, and ‘Period. End of Sentence’ has been nominated at the 91st Oscar’s in the Documentary Short Subject category.

Directed by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi, the film took inspiration from  ‘The Pad Project’ ; an organisation established by an inspired group of students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles.

The film with 30 people listed on the producer’s team feature three producers from India, Guneet Monga, Shaan Vyas and Mandakini Kakar from her company Sikhya Entertainment.

 

‘Period. End Of Sentence’

The 26-minute short film set in Hapur Village in Uttar Pradesh, revolves around the stigma of menstruation in rural India. When the sanitary pad machine, an invention of the now famous Pad Man Arunachalam Muruganatham is installed in the village, the women learn to manufacture and market their own pads, empowering the women of their community. The film follows the women and their adaptation to the new invention.

Watch the trailer here –

The five films nominated in the category are –

BLACK SHEEP, Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn
END GAME, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
LIFEBOAT, Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser
A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, Marshall Curry
PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE., Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton.