As South Asian women documentary filmmakers, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (she's from Pakistan) and Geeta Gandbhir (she is from India) have covered varied topics. Obaid-Chinoy has won an Oscar -- the only Pakistani to ever win one -- for her short documentary Saving Face.


A few years ago they both collaborated on an unlikely subject -- following a group of Bangladeshi policewomen who serve as United Nations peacekeepers in post-earthquake Haiti, a country fraught with political and social turmoil. A Journey of Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.


Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com spoke to Obaid-Chinoy and Gandbhir in Toronto about the making of the film which starts in Bangladesh, then heads to Haiti and finally ends in Bangladesh. Do read