Oscars 2019: Period. End of Sentence bags the Best Short Documentary award

The 91st Academy Awards is in full swing and let us inform you that Period. End of Sentence, a film based on the stigma surrounding menstruation, has won the Oscar for the Best Short Documentary. And we can’t be happier! The film has made it big and brought the progress made in the Indian menstrual health department to the world stage. For those of you who don’t know, Indian filmmaker Guneet Monga is also one of the producers of the movie. As soon as Period. End of Sentence won the Oscar, people across the globe started praising it and its achievement.

Guneet Monga also took to her Twitter handle to express her happiness. She wrote, “WE WON!!! To every girl on this earth. know that you are a goddess. if heavens are listening. look MA we put @sikhya on the map.” The film primarily based on how women in the Hapur village of India take a step forward and start producing sanitary napkins to create awareness. It also generates employment for women. Apart from this, Period. End of Sentence also portrays how the topic of menstrual sanitation is still a taboo and how women don’t know much about it.

WE WON!!! To every girl on this earth… know that you are a goddess… if heavens are listening… look MA we put @sikhya on the map ❤️

— Guneet Monga (@guneetm) February 25, 2019

Directed by Rayka Zehtabchi, Period. End of Sentence is crowd funded by the students of Oakwood School. Guneet Monga is the only India representative at this year’s Oscars and she has made it big by winning in the Best Short Documentary category. Rayka thanked Guneet in her winning speech and couldn’t hold back her tears. Though the film is not made by a Indian, we are proud that a story of progressive India is impressing the world. More power to you Rayka, Guneet and the team of Period. End of Sentence.