evidence: What’s resulted is basically a kind of Dunkirk with camels. When we screened at Austin, a grown man came up to me in tears, saying he hadn’t cried in years and it was all this camel’s fault. Judas Collar won best live-action short at AFF. At the awards ceremony, my producer Brooke Silcox and I were lucky enough to speak with screenwriting legend Tony Gilroy. He shook my hand and said "Don’t let this make you complacent. Just keep on writing. Write tomorrow. Even better, go home and write tonight." And I took that to heart. Not the tonight bit though, because it was the Austin Film Festival damn it! There were drinks to be had. [...] I’m now in LA, writing. And it feels a long way away from the time a handful of filmmakers transported eight camels and a helicopter a thousand kilometers north of Perth, Western Australia. A long way from the scorching desert heat, the flies, the seven flat tires, two bogged vehicles and the blown head gasket on our camel truck.