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| ALAN | 11th November 2013 - 01:35 AM |
 
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Two British companies to produce first ever Kurdish film in English Sanger Hussein BasNews (Suliaymania): “If we cannot put the world on a plane to send it back to Kurdistan, let’s take Kurdistan to the world” is the Blindfold Shoes motto. Blindfold Shoes is the first Kurdish feature film to be produced in English. “It will become the top film among all other Kurdish films,” said director Kae Bahar. The film tells the story of 10 year old Tishko, a big football fan who faces a myriad of challenges on his journey to achieve his dreams. “This story reflects the history of the Kurdish nation, and concentrates on the bravery of the Kurds,” said Bahar. British company Footprint Films, represented by Mark Blaney and Jackie Shepard, and Kae Bahar’s Joka Films, visited South Kurdistan to produce a series of short documentary films; Blindfold Shoes is one of these project. “We want this film to be a common project between the South Kurdistan and Britain. Our purpose is not purely financial, we also want to serve Kurdistan,” says British director, Mark Blaney. “The film requires about $8-10 million. We think it’s one of the most expensive films ever made in the South Kurdistan,” said Bahar. “We have decided to allocate 10% of Blindfold Shoes’ revenues to youths in South Kurdistan, in order to send them abroad to work on their filmmaking skills,” Bahar concluded.
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
 
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