Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, when I took the stage with director Rayka Zehtabchi to accept the Academy Award for documentary short subject for “Period ...

Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Anita Diamant still remembers the 2019 Oscars, when “Period. End of Sentence,” now streaming on Netflix, won for best documentary short film. As one ...

The Oscar winning documentary short 'Period. End of Sentence' is set in a village near India's capital Delhi and revolves around women battling patriarchy to manufacture cost-effective sanitary pads.

"Period. End of Sentence" won the Oscar for best documentary short subject. It was an unusual start to an Oscars acceptance speech. "I'm not crying because I'm on my period or anything," said director ...

In an effort to improve feminine hygiene, a machine that creates low-cost biodegradable sanitary pads is installed in a rural village in Northern India. Using the machine, a group of local women is ...

In 2019, when I took the stage with director Rayka Zehtabchi to accept the Academy Award for documentary short subject for “Period. End of Sentence,” I held the Oscar high and declared “a period ...