Smile Pinki is a documentary about a five-year-old Indian girl named Pinki who was born with a cleft palate. All of her life she's dreamed of having the surgery that would make her look like everyone else, but because her family is poor, the surgery is out of the question. That is until a social worker comes to Pinki's village to recruit patients for a hospital that provides free surgeries.

Smile Pinki won an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short Subject at the 81st Annual Academy Awards on February 22, 2009.The Oscars: Smile Pinki

• "The biggest challenge for me was communicating and finding common ground with the patients and families in the film. Like many of the patients, Pinki's parents are illiterate dirt-farmers. They had never seen a movie or met a foreigner. I really wanted them to understand my motivation for making the film and gain their trust."Documentary.org: Meet Filmmaker Megan Mylan

• "I knew I wanted to make a vérité film with the young patients as the central characters. From my first research conversations, I felt that the story had a magical fairy tale quality to it even though it dealt with social ostracism and crushing poverty."Documentary.org: Meet Filmmaker Megan Mylan