'A Life Too Short' is also a story of poverty, it is also a story of domestic abuse, of child marriage, of classicism, and astory of trying to find your identity, and it also a story of social media fame, says Usmani. Photo: Visualhunt.com
Filmmaker Safyah Usmani documented Pakistan's changing laws surrounding honor killings through the story of Pakistani celebrity Qandeel Baloch's death in "A Life Too Short."
"The reason I chose to make this film, and when I started was right after her murder," she said. "The reason behind that was... I was thinking about how the ability to choose, the freedom to choose, is such a powerful tool that all of us have. And a lot of us take it for granted, not knowing that many women around the world - not just Pakistan - do not get to exercise that right."
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