“Afghan Star” to represent UK at the OScar
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 6, 2009 under Academy award, Documentary, Foreign Film, Music | 
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The United Kingdom has selected Havana Marking’s documentary “Afghan Star” as its 2009 submission for the Academy Awards, reports indieWIRE.
“Afghan Star” details how, after 30 years of war and Taliban rule, ‘American Idol’ has come to Afghanistan and is “taking the nation by storm.” For many in the country, this was their first encounter with democracy and for the contestants, they are actually risking their lives to sing. It won both Best Director and the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary section.
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