Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 @ 7:00 PM Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
Afghan Star
http://www.afghanstardocumentary.com/
Guest Speaker:
Naheed Bahram from Women for Afghan Women
http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/

"A fantastic documentary about a talent competition in a country where you would never dream such a thing possible." Oprah Winfrey

Havana Marking, director of Afghan Star andwinner of the 2009 Directing and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, has created an amazingly moving documentary that follows the dramatic stories of four young finalists as they compete in an "American Idol" style competition in post Taliban Afghanistan. Afghan Star explores the Afghani people's relationship to pop culture and allows the viewer a window into a nation's tenuous, ongoing struggle for modernity.