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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 771488" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/movies/22tulip.html?_r=4" target="_blank">LOS ANGELES </a>— <strong>Sonia Nassery Cole knew that shooting a movie on location in Afghanistan could get her killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks before filming, she said, when militants located her leading actress and cut off both of her feet.</strong></p><p> But Ms. Cole, an Afghan expatriate with a flair for the dramatic and a history of not taking no for an answer, had her mind made up. Unable to find another actress to take the part — the film is overtly critical of the Taliban — Ms. Cole, 45, decided to play the role herself.</p><p> “Come hell, come shine, I was going to make this movie,” said Ms. Cole, a novice filmmaker whose primary job is running the Afghanistan World Foundation, a charity focused on refugees and women’s rights.</p><p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/" target="_blank">http://weaselzippers.us/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 771488, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/movies/22tulip.html?_r=4"]LOS ANGELES [/URL]— [B]Sonia Nassery Cole knew that shooting a movie on location in Afghanistan could get her killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks before filming, she said, when militants located her leading actress and cut off both of her feet.[/B] But Ms. Cole, an Afghan expatriate with a flair for the dramatic and a history of not taking no for an answer, had her mind made up. Unable to find another actress to take the part — the film is overtly critical of the Taliban — Ms. Cole, 45, decided to play the role herself. “Come hell, come shine, I was going to make this movie,” said Ms. Cole, a novice filmmaker whose primary job is running the Afghanistan World Foundation, a charity focused on refugees and women’s rights. [url]http://weaselzippers.us/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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