Law goes to Afghanistan for U.N. film
Academy Award-nominated actor Jude Law traveled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan to help promote the United Nations’ annual day of worldwide cease-fire and nonviolence in September.
Accompanied by British director Jeremy Gilley and a film crew, the 34-year-old actor interviewed children, government ministers and community leaders for a movie to mark the U.N.’s Peace Day on Sept. 21.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted Peace Day into its global calendar of events in 2001, after Gilley’s lobbying campaign, which he documented in the film “Peace One Day.”
“Afghanistan will be the focal point for the second film, so it seemed important that Jeremy also have a sounding board, a third-party perspective on his trip,” Law told reporters Thursday inside a guarded U.N. compound in Kabul.
“This film is about documenting and seeing how Peace Day can save lives,” Law said.
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