Pakistani Academy Selection Committee
The Pakistani Academy Selection Committee (PASC) is an non-governmental selection committee of Pakistani film director, producers, writers, actors, distributors and exhibitors, headquartered in Karachi and Lahore. The PASC selects the Pakistani Official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film each year. However, submission is not bound to Foreign Language category, if meets with the eligibility requirements of Academy's rules, it is permissible for every competitive award. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a chairman and head of committee who overseen the final selection for Oscars and is a lifetime member of PASC. In 2013, committee shortlisted the four films.
The PASC choose one film as Pakistan’s official submission for the, "Foreign Language Film Award." A foreign language film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. The criteria for eligibility is as follows:
Before 2013, as no committee was formed, films were sent by directors by themselves. The 1958 Urdu film Jago Hua Savera was Pakistan's first submission, but the film was not selected from the selection process to shortlist and to final five nominations. In 1963 second film Ghunghat was also fail to compete in selection process.
Following is the complete details of selection committee's submissions for Best Foreign Language Film category at Academy Awards.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Mehreen Jabbar, Samina Peerzada, Rahat Kazmi, Mohsin Hamid, Iram Parveen Bilal and Framji Minwalla and Akifa Mian
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