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2006-08-21 Afghanistan

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Posted by john 2006-08-21 20:07|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nelofer Pazira, the star of the movie "Kandahar", was born in India, into an Afghan professional family in 1973. The family returned to Kabul when Nelofer was a child. Nelofer grew up in Kabul during the Russian occupation of the country. The family fled to Pakistan in 1989, when Nelofer was sixteen.

As s refugee, Nelofer lived in Pakistan for one year before migrating to Canada. She obtained her degree in Journalism and English Literature from Carleton University in Ottawa and is working on her MA thesis at Concordia University, Montreal.

Since 1996, Nelofer has made two documentary films about Iran. As a journalist, she has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio, written for Sight & Sound (British Film Institute Magazine), Elm Street, McLeans, The Ottawa Citizen, The Toronto Star, Panorama, and EI Semanal.

Pazira played the lead role in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film "Kandahar" a film based on Pazira's real life story. The film made her, unwittingly, a representative of a cause the need for the world to stop ignoring the tragedy of the Afghan war. She was awarded "Prix de interpretation" by the New Cinema, New Media Montreal Film Festival (October 2001).

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Posted by RD 2006-08-21 20:51|| 2006-08-21 20:51|| Front Page Top

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