What Took You So Long, comprised of Alicia Sully, Sebastian Lindstrom, and Philippa Young, began our camel milk journey in July 2010 with little idea that it would take us so far around the world and so deep into a camel milk passion. We have filmed in more than 20 countries, been on ten-day camel [...]
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‘Hot Chocolate for Bedouins’ Experimental food society screening
October 22, 2011 – 1:52 pm
‘Hot Chocolate for Bedouins’, a documentary film that explores the benefits of camel milk, was screened at the Experimental Food Society Event at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane today. By Carolina Bodmer, potential WTYSL intern and atenndee of the Experimental Food Society Spectacular Camel milk? Really? At first glance this seems to be a rather [...]
Christmas day disaster
March 7, 2011 – 3:15 pm
25th December, 2010. What did you do on Christmas Day? What day is it? Christmas day. Where am I? Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi, The Desert. What I am doing? Waiting for a sheikh to arrive at a camel festival. I never thought I’d be writing these words. Today has been the best day filming; a [...]
Camels back on top!
March 3, 2011 – 5:46 pm
24th December 2010. Camels: back on top… Christmas Eve for us; a camel race for everyone else. It’s difficult to think of snow and Christmas trees when faced with a line of camels against a sky that blurs with heat into the sand. Dust and noise crowd for space as hundreds of cars hoot and [...]
Taking us home: Al Dhafra Camel Festival
February 23, 2011 – 7:07 pm
23rd December, 2010 - Taking us home: Al Dhafra Camel Festival We spend all of 30 seconds on the side of the road before being picked up by two young men in a huge, white 4×4. We have arrived, in the middle of the Abu Dhabi desert, for Al Dhafra Camel Festival. The boys speak schwei [...]
Six reasons why YOU should be drinking camel’s milk, by Tafline Laylin
February 18, 2011 – 8:03 am
We talk to people about why camel milk is AWESOME every day. One of WTYSL’s favourite writers Tafline Laylin says it simply and accurately HERE and below.. One hump or two? Feisty camels might have a bad rap, but their milk is low in fat, and full of vitamin C and iron. The next thing [...]
Twofour54 interviews WTYSL
February 13, 2011 – 8:49 pm
http://creativelab.twofour54.com/ 13th February, 2011 Film, educate and connect A heady mixture of youth, idealism, pro-activism, social change, travel and film, What Took You So Long (WTYSL) Foundation is passionate about aiding grass-root NGOs around the world via the immediacy and visceral impact of documentaries. Armed with their cameras and their curiosity, the WTYSL crew films [...]
A camel lovin’ story …
February 11, 2011 – 1:01 pm
21st December 2010 This morning we jumped onto a bus in Abu Dhabi and hopped off an hour-and-a-half later in Dubai. Dan has organised a private camel farm visit for us. Asem, Dan’s friend and police administrative officer, picks us up in a large white 4×4, not unlike every other huge white 4×4 that zooms [...]
At a camel market in Egypt we saw a camel die….
January 31, 2011 – 12:33 pm
At a camel market in Egypt we saw a camel die. In this place, where camels are bought and sold almost exclusively for meat, we felt apathy towards an animal revered as essential to life itself in other parts of the world, even in other parts of Egypt. The market is a bus, taxi and [...]
