An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.

But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

Education liberates a woman.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.