Here's the first story for our flickr stories project, although mine is more of an outline for a movie:
"Said used to be a loyal driver for the upper echelons of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. Nowadays he ekes out an existence doing dangerous taxi and transport jobs. He has been offered a lot of US dollars to wait at a particular location outside a prison in Mosul, in northern Iraq. The arranged time has passed so he is considering leaving when he hears the sound of gunfire from inside the walls of the prison he is parked outside. A man drops from the wall onto the top of his taxi, bleeding, yelling at Said to get into the taxi and get driving. They make their escape through the back streets of Mosul.
It turns out that the escapee is a Kurd leader and through their mutual hatred of each other and their religions hilarity ensues... or through a series of trials they get through together they gain a deeper understanding of each other as human beings and come to realise that the ingrained cultural hatred between Kurds and Shites (or Shi'a, or whatever. I'll do my research later) is, like, totally bogus, dude."
Either way -> Hollywood clichés abound -> mucho dolleros for film makers. So, who want to produce this sucker?
Read Hadyn's story.
