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It was 25-year-old Rayka Zehtabchi’s very first project out of film school that won the filmmaker her first Oscar. In her acceptance speech, in which many young women might find themselves mortified, Zehtabchi talked about her period. But it made perfect sense: the Oscar-winning documentary she directed, Period. End of Sentence., is about empowering young women in India to take control of their own bodies, shed the stigma around menstruation, and create and provide access to basic sanitary products. “For me, filmmaking, the purpose of it really is to take down walls and to educate people,” says Zehtabchi. “But to do it not by feeding people medicine, but by sharing character and art with audiences.”