Pakistani to submit their work for Oscar consideration.

The Pakistani Academy Selection Committee has encouraged Pakistani filmmakers to submit their works for Oscar consideration in the ‘International Feature Film Award' category for the 94th Academy Awards.

According to a news statement, all interested persons have been invited to submit their work for consideration by September 20th. This will be the Pakistani Academy Selection Committee's ninth submission in a row.

The Committee submitted the finest of Pakistani cinema to the category 'international feature film,' previously by Zinda Bhaag in 2013, Dukhtar in 2014, MOOR in 2015, Mah-e-Mir in 2016, Saawan in 2017, Cake in 2018, Lal Kabootar in 2019, and Zindagi Tamasha in 2020.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Academy Award, and Emmy winner will lead the panel that will assess films for the Oscars in 2021. Together with Sharmeen, the review panel will include Ali Azmat , Bee Gul , Humayun Saeed [Actor, Director, and Producer], Jawed Sheikh [Actor, Producer, and Director], Mo Azmi , Omar Shahid Hamid , Rafay Mahmood , Samina Ahmad [Actor, Producer, and Director], Sania Saeed

One Pakistani film will be chosen as the country's official entry for the feature film prize from among all entries.

The academy defines an international film as a feature-length motion picture with a running time of more than 40 minutes that is produced elsewhere in the United States of America and its territories and has a mainly (more than 50%) non-English language track.

Submissions are accepted for all animated and documentary feature films.