Driving to Zigzigland!

Alrighty!, as it seems noone is interested in the series I started last month on the lives of young expatriates in the Middle East as I haven’t heard any feedback!, I’ve decided to stop it and go back to writing about films that I hope you find interesting!.

Driving to Zigzigland is a day in the life of a Palestinian taxi driver in the “city of Angels”. Bashar, an aspiring actor from the holy city of Jerusalem decides to move to Los Angeles- where the film industry is as big as it gets in the world- to pursue his career,he arrives there, he gets married and starts looking for roles to play in “good old Hollywood”, he’s turned down as every role he’s offered, is a role he would never accept to play!! . So, he starts driving a taxi in LA to make a living, the conversations and the quite funny encounters he has with the passengers throughout the film are so interesting!.

I met with the executive producer Anas Khalaf,a young gentleman from Syria, at a conference on prospects of film development in the Arab world last June. He said Driving to Zigzigland happened to be the very first Palestinian-American film produced cooperatively between the U.S and Palestine, and as the film has not come out on DVD yet, they are holding screening for in various parts of the world such as India, Europe, the Middle East and indeed the United States.

I leave you with the trailer of the film as it was posted on You Tube…

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