More than Honey: new film on bees

[psafloyd]

Saw a new film on bees called More Than Honey at the launch of the UK Green Film Festival last night.

Beautifully filmed, some of the photography is amazing. Especially a mating flight, which according to a Q&A with the director but Skype after the screening took 10 days to get 32 seconds of footage.

The storytelling is also interesting. There is an agenda, but the film allows each protagonist to tell their own story. I am even somewhat sympathetic towards the US bee farmer, who is clearly caught within an agricultural system that relies on mass migration of bees.

Anyway, there are a number of screenings during this wee, from South Shields tonight, also in Newcastle, Leeds and London during the rest of the week.

More details at http://www.ukgreenfilmfestival.org/programme.html

 

[Tom Bick]

Thanks looks interesting may check it out.

 

[psafloyd]

Thanks looks interesting may check it out.

I highly recommend it. My missus (not a beek and not massively interested) found it fascinating, particularly the photography both within and outside the hive.

 

[davnig]

In bristol, june 23

http://biggreenweek.com/session/film-festival-more-than-honey/

 

[Rob55]

Just watched the trailer, looks good!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NT05qEJxUk[/ame]

 

[Firefly]

That Einstein mis-quote turns up sooooo often

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

There is a different clip in the Guardian - more of the mating flight. Frankly, amazing!

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2013/sep/06/queen-bee-wedding-flight-video

 

[blackie]

when can we buy or see this film

 

[beeboybee]

just fond it on Lovefilm and Amazon

 

[Hachi]

Watched it last night at our monthly BKA meet. A fascinating film that is predominantly in german. It looked at a BEEK in the Bavarian mountains, one in the USA and then over to China.

Shame I couldn't understand most of it but everyone is right the film footage is out of this world.

 

[Hachi]

Just watched the trailer clip and that version is in english woo hoo will watch it again very very soon.

 

[Firefly]

when can we buy or see this film

Lovefilm says "Due for release on 21 Oct 2013" (that's DVD release, presumably)

 

[Margaret Elisabeth]

Lovefilm says "Due for release on 21 Oct 2013" (that's DVD release, presumably)

That's funny(peculiar) I am sure this is the film we saw at Sheffield Beek. Ass. last month.
I was appalled at the American Beeks practice. Thousands of miles travel from one place to another with literally hundreds of colonies on the backs of lorries for two days. Someone spraying the crop after the arrival of the colonies then hundreds of bees dying in the extraction method. and they wonder what is causing colony collapse. I felt sorry for the old chap in Switzerland who lost his colony to disease after someone else brought in a different strain of bees to the same small valley and his queen had mated with the other strain.

 

[blackie]

ive pre ordered on amazone only £9.99

 

[Russel]

just fond it on Lovefilm and Amazon

Found on Amazon but not on Lovefilm if logged in?

 

[AmyB]

I've found it on lovefilm and it is due for release on 21 oct, amazon is the same date.

 

[Hachi]

I think the copy we saw must have come from Germany. It was in German

 

[blacksheep]

Hi: Can some one give me the address on Amazon where I can get the DVD?Thanks,Bill

 

[YorkshireBees]

Hi: Can some one give me the address on Amazon where I can get the DVD?Thanks,Bill

http://tinyurl.com/nqjlcpq

It says
Two versions of the film (one in the original language and one featuring a narration by John Hurt)

 

[Walrus]

I got it on you toob (german/french/american) - amazing photography especially the queen being mated. Interesting take on AHBs at the end - apparently they are lovely....