Projects
Expeditions
Expeditions
The What Took You So Long Foundation has launched 3 major documentary projects & numerous initiatives since its birth in 2008. The crews include professional filmmaker(s), a dynamic team leader, photographers, writers, students, and volunteers.
September 2011 – current
The team is based in Nairobi, Kenya where they accept interns to join on 1-6 month basis. Please get in touch if you are interested. They are working on various projects including setting up the first African Sandbox-Network hub.
In March 2012 part of the team went to Central America, launching the new media campaign for Agora Partnerships, an NGO working with entrepreneurship and the other half went to Zambia to shoot again with Strategic Productions a short doc on HIV/AIDS integration. In January 2012 the team went to Lisbon, Portugal to shoot the Sandbox-Network Global Summit.
In September 2011 they produced the media campaign for Mobius motors, a car made in Africa for Africa with a team of interns from around the world. In November of 2011 they were asked to shoot with Strategic Productions. In February of 2012 they shot the Mobile Web East Africa Conference.
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July-August 2011
They core team traveled to Liberia July-August 2011 to work for 6 organizations. For 3 weeks they were shooting with Phil Borges, the UN Women Photographer. They also made videos for More Than Me Foundation, iLAB, Liberlii, and Education Development Center.
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18 countries | 1 year
Respecting the camel has taken WTYSL to Asia, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. This year long project expands as the nomadic team moves from culture to culture, sharing the knowledge of the camel’s immense value.
The feature documentary is in post-production with Saowt Al Badia Media Production Company in Abu Dhabi. Test screenings of a 45 minute version was shown at Zita Cinema in Sweden, the SOAS camel conference in London in Summer, 2011, the Experimental Food Society Spectacular, and the International Ethiopian Camel Conference in Jigjiga, October 2011.
At the beginning of the journey, with the co-operation of Mongolian National TV, the team produced a 20 minute television broadcast. It was aired on September 23rd, 2010. In Kazakhstan the team co=operated with Al-Jazeera and BBC to promote their story and in Kyrgyzstan the team worked with a Peace Corps Volunteer to make a short video. Numerous articles, blogs and press have been written about this story.
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July 2010/ December 2009 – February 2010
Cross peninsula trek and journey through one the world’s most culturally diverse and least explored country.
The 20 minute documentary, “Betelnut Bliss,” shot by Alicia Sully and edited by Sofie Rordam at Mirror Studios, was presented in numerous villages on the second expedition. Additional footage was collected on both the betelnut story and the ongoing unsung heroes episodes. Another expedition is being planned for December 2011.
June – September 2009
The launch of What Took You So Long Foundation began with this idea and developed with this expedition. The team traveled across the Africa continent overland from Morocco to South Africa by local transport.
Jessica Sherell photographed the first part of the journey and her photos are featured throughout this website. Evan wrote blogs and directed the Video profiles of each NGO hosting the team along the way. Ending up in South Africa Evan and Alicia (shooting and editing) stayed to work on the documentary. The work continued months later in Hong Kong at Mirror Studios with Sebastian Lindstrom and a team of interns. A Kickstarter project helped support WTYSL to finish editing. In the fall of 2010 the documentary was toured throughout universities in the USA and Europe.
