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"I stood on a precipice and surveyed the blackened, bombed-out, bullet-riddled village before me. As I leaned into the breeze (more of a blast furnace than relief), I raised my fist to the heavens and screamed, "Where did all these in' goats come from!"

Like many things in my life, I fell into this project accidentally. For all who bounce around the world in search of adventure, stories to tell, or really good street food, you know what I mean.

My brother Dave and I are partners in Culture Shock Productions. Last summer we were working for the USC Shoah Foundation in Northern Iraq, documenting the stories from the survivors of the genocide that took place in the Shingal Mountains back in August 2014. The genocide targeted a religious ethnic minority called the Yazidi…"
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On our last day we shot at a Peshmerga army outpost. That morning we were (stupidly) driving a staged convoy dressed with ISIS flags. The Canadian special forces almost wiped us out. We were very lucky to survive, and still had four more scenes shoot.

I wonder what part of that sounded like a good idea at first.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand