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December 3, 2007 — MADONNA, ANGELINA JOLIE, WILL FERRELL, CHER, STEVE NASH, FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH AND OTHER CELEBRITIES RALLY AROUND THE KITE RUNNER CHARITY AUCTION

eBay charity auction on December 5 to include 25 Authentic Afghan Kites, each personally signed by a major celebrity

Los Angeles, CA, December 3, 2007 - An unprecedented lineup of celebrities have joined forces for a special eBay charity auction to launch Participant Productions' social action campaign for the highly anticipated film version of The Kite Runner. On December 5th, authentic Afghan kites, each bearing a tail personally autographed by a different celebrity, will be listed on eBay- http://www.ebay.com/kiterunner . The proceeds will benefit the Afghanistan Relief Organization (ARO) specifically for the training of teachers and the construction of rural libraries in Afghanistan. The Kite Runner is scheduled to open in select theaters December 14.

Among those celebrities who have autographed the 25 kite tails are Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Benicio Del Toro, Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Cher, Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Kate Winslet, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, former President George H.W. Bush, Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling, Steve Nash, Lauren Bosworth, Lauren Conrad, Hans Zimmer, The Kite Runner director Marc Forster and actor Khalid Abdalla. In addition to receiving a kite with the tail autographed by the celebrity, the winning bidder will receive a "thank you" card signed by the celebrity.

Other items to be listed on eBay include a trip to the set of the new James Bond film as a personal guest of director Marc Forster, as well as a private lunch with The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini. People will also have the opportunity to bid for the inclusion of their names in Hosseini's next book.

Mary Adams Urashima, ARO Board Member said, "We are so grateful to The Kite Runner filmmakers and all the celebrities who have contributed to this amazing charity auction, and we especially wish to thank eBay for the support and exposure it will generate."

Auction Cause will produce the charity auction through eBay Giving Works, eBay's dedicated program for charity listings. Auction Cause is a premier auction management agency specializing in high profile cause marketing events for brands, nonprofits, and celebrities.

Based one on of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Kite Runner is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right. The Kite Runner is a Dreamworks Pictures-Sidney Kimmel Entertainment-Participant Productions presentation of a Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Production and Parkes/MacDonald Production, released by Paramount Classics.

About Afghanistan Relief Organization (ARO)

Afghanistan Relief Organization (ARO) is a non-political, secular non-religious, nonprofit, humanitarian organization, registered in the United States and in Afghanistan (a requirement of all non governmental organizations working in Afghanistan).

ARO has worked on relief efforts in Afghanistan since 1998. After late 2001, hundreds of non governmental organizations (NGOs) began arriving in Afghanistan to participate in reconstruction. In 2005, the new Afghan government began a careful review and re-registration process to determine which organizations were contributing programs beneficial to recovery efforts. As of early February 2006, the Afghan government renewed the operating licenses of about 160 NGOs, out of approximately 1600 NGOs. The Afghanistan Relief Organization was the tenth NGO re-registered and remains in good standing.

ARO delivers relief aid directly into the hands of the needy throughout Afghanistan, and offers general education programs designed to encourage self sufficiency.

About Participant Productions

Participant Productions is a Los Angeles-based production company that focuses on socially relevant, commercially viable feature films and documentaries. Participant's films have been chosen to awaken, inspire and empower audiences to take action and create change. The company is headed by CEO Jim Berk and President Ricky Strauss. Participant was founded by philanthropist Jeff Skoll, who serves as Chairman. Participant Productions films currently in release are Ted Braun's documentary Darfur Now, Jonathan Demme's documentary Jimmy Carter Man From Plains and Louise Hogarth's documentary Angels in the Dust. Upcoming releases include Marc Forster's The Kite Runner Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War, Brett Morgen's documentary Chicago 10, The Visitor (Tom McCarthy's first film since The Station Agent) and Errol Morris' documentary S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure).

Past films have included Good Night, And Good Luck, Syriana, North Country and Murderball, which collectively received 11 Academy Award nominations and one Oscar in 2005, and Participant's An Inconvenient Truth, which won two 2006 Academy Awards -- for Best Documentary and Best Original Song -- and has become one of the highest grossing documentaries in history. For further information, please visit www.participate.net