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| 14 Year old |
This saying truly exemplifies the story of 14-year old Ghanaian street vendor,Attah Abraham, who won the Marcello Mastroianni’s Best Young Actor Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.
He won the award for his lead performance in a Beasts of
No Nation, alongsideIdris Elba, Citifmonline reports.
Abraham was discovered on the streets of Ghana during the shooting
of the Netflix soon-to-be released movie.
Director of the movie, Cary Fukunaga, says Abraham was
randomly selected on the streets, and that the teenager had no prior acting
experience.
Impressed by his outstanding peformance, Fukunaga has decided to
fund Abraham’s education.
“For Abraham, he’s
only 14 so we had to get him up to speed in school, so right now we put him
into boarding school back in Ghana so he can get up to normal 14 year old
academics. By nature of us crossing into these people’s lives you have some
responsibility there to make their lives better…”bellanaija
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