An Indian schoolgirl who escaped destitution to become a poster-child at Wimbledon after starring in an Oscar-winning documentary is back in poverty and lives in a house with no door. Pinki Sonkar, ...

At the Academy Awards after-parties, the kids from “Slumdog Millionaire” made the rounds, chatting and accepting congratulations. They shared the joy of winning with Pinki Devi, 8, the star of ...

An Academy Award can work wonders. That’s the word from the team at Smile Train, the world’s pre-eminent free cleft surgery organization spotlighted in the Oscar-nominated documentary short “Smile ...

Sometimes winning an Oscar means more than bigger bucks for your next flick. Once in a while, it can even make the world a better place. That’s the case with Megan Mylan, who won the Academy Award in ...

Didn’t get around to seeing all last year’s Oscar winners? Never mind, one of them may come to you, free, on DVD. In an unusual marketing move, the producers of Smile Pinki, which won the Oscar in ...

Sometimes amid the hullabaloo of big stars and production numbers and who's-wearing-what on Oscar night, it can be easy to forget -- or at least overlook -- some of the fine work being done in less ...

RAMPUR DHABAHI, India (Reuters Life!) - She's not as famous as the child actors of "Slumdog Millionaire," but Pinki Sonkar is a legend in the Indian village that once ostracized her, thanks to ...

For Oscar winning director Megan Mylan, a subject should speak to her head and heart. "This is something my grandmother had taught me," she says, "Before I take on any project, I talk to my head and ...

For 39-year-old Megan Mylan, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker of Smile Pinki, the moment of epiphany arrived when working as a tabloid journalist in New York City, where she currently lives. "I had ...

Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one ...

“Smile Pinki” tells the story of children in India born with cleft palates who receive free plastic surgery. Accepting the award, filmmaker Mylan said, “Oh, to be in a room with all this talent -- ...