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The Taliban forced Afghan TV workers to hide. Now they ask for Hollywood helpFor almost two decades, the Afghan TV industry developed a popular hit, from medical performances and family drama to Afghan Stars, music competitions based on American Idol.
Now, almost six months after the Taliban confiscated control, many television workers and Afghan films were unemployed and hiding. Some feel abandoned by TV and entertainment industry workers in other countries. A number of former international colleagues have struggled to make them safe, and they say they really need more support. (All names of Afghan TV workers have been changed for this article.)
Relatives bring Sadia Sadat’s coffin, one of the three Afghan journalists of the woman killed on March 2, during the funeral in Jalalabad.
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Former other media workers described to rush to rub their Facebook profiles and hide or throw anything in their homes that will link it to the entertainment industry.
They hide their cameras, microphones, and boom, every thing,” said Farjad, old TV producer based in Kabul. A friend of a filmmaker buried his camera “on earth, like a cemetery,” he said.
