Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose films have impacted legislative change. Since 2001, she has made over two dozen multi-award films in over 16 countries around the world. In 2022, she infused her signature style and verisimilitude she brings to her nonfiction projects to her narrative directorial debut for Marvel’s critically acclaimed series, MS.MARVEL. The New York Times included her episodes in its annual “Best Episodes of TV” list, calling them “ ingenious and surprisingly moving.”

More recently, it was announced that Obaid-Chinoy will direct a STAR WARS feature starring Daisy Ridley. She will also direct Paramount's BRILLIANCE, based on the Marcus Sakey novel of the same name.

Obaid-Chinoy is also the recipient of Four Emmy Awards, a Knight International Journalism Award, Two The Alfred I. duPont awards, The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. She was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world and In 2013, the Canadian government awarded her a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work in the field of documentary films and the World Economic Forum honored her with a Crystal Award at their annual summit in Davos.

Obaid-Chinoy helms SOC Films, a film and animation production company. Under this banner, she continues her mission to further social consciousness and bring about meaningful legislative and societal change.