In 2009, a documentary titled Smile Pinki won the Academy Award in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category. This project, directed by Megan Mylan, depicted the story of two children from rural ...

An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, ...

Sometimes winning an Oscar means more than bigger bucks for your next flick. Once in a while, it can even make the world a better place. That’s the case with Megan Mylan, who won the Academy Award in ...

Smile Train, a nonprofit group that offers surgeries to fix mouth deformities for poor children, has gained tens of thousands of new donors since a film on its work won the Academy Award for best ...

Didn’t get around to seeing all last year’s Oscar winners? Never mind, one of them may come to you, free, on DVD. In an unusual marketing move, the producers of Smile Pinki, which won the Oscar in ...

Sometimes amid the hullabaloo of big stars and production numbers and who's-wearing-what on Oscar night, it can be easy to forget -- or at least overlook -- some of the fine work being done in less ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Forget "Slumdog Millionaire." Two documentary films shot in India are also eyeing Oscar glory this month. "The Final Inch," a short film on the battle against polio, and ...

“Smile Pinki” tells the story of children in India born with cleft palates who receive free plastic surgery. Accepting the award, filmmaker Mylan said, “Oh, to be in a room with all this talent -- ...

RAMPUR DHABAHI, India (Reuters Life!) - She's not as famous as the child actors of "Slumdog Millionaire," but Pinki Sonkar is a legend in the Indian village that once ostracized her, thanks to ...

An Indian schoolgirl who shot to fame after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary has told how her 'Cinderella fairytale' was over 'in no time' and she was plunged back into a life 'full of pain, ...

Kids From Smile Pinki Faring Way Better Than Ones From SlumdogMemo to impoverished Indian children: be from the movie that won the Best Documentary Oscar, not Best Picture.