INQUIRER.net: Afghan street kid heads for the Oscars red carpet

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Afghan street kid heads for the Oscars red carpet Feb 19th 2013, 04:56 KABUL—An Afghan street kid is off to Hollywood and the red-carpet treatment at the Oscars— a fairytale ending to a chance encounter that led to a starring role in a movie.   Fawad Mohammadi, 14, was selling maps to passing foreigners on Kabul's famed Chicken Street to help feed his family when he met American director Sam French.   Now he is preparing for his first flight in an aircraft and his first trip outside war-torn Afghanistan to a glamorous world almost beyond imagination on the grimy streets of Kabul.   French cast Mohammadi as one of the main characters in "Buzkashi Boys", a movie shot entirely in Afghanistan and nominated for Best Live ... Keep on reading: Afghan street kid heads for the Oscars red carpet Media files: sam.jpg (image/jpeg)

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