At TED, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy talks about using her Oscar-winning documentary “A Girl in the River: The Price of Freedom” to change culture. In 2016, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won an Academy Award for her documentary film A Girl in the River: The Price of Freedom. The film told the story of a woman in Obaid-Chinoy’s home country of Pakistan whose father and uncle attempted to kill her after she married someone she chose instead of having an arranged marriage.