Film & Video 

Cozette Wolken studies agriculture at Oregon State University. She wanted to interview a beekeeper for her final project in her Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping class. She interviewed Charlene Potter on November 25, 2022. Below is the final video that Cozette created for her assignment.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RqhyhbcbRpNhpiYj5WfwGo4kAFubHIq1/view?usp=share_link

How to do backyard beekeeping: Inside Southern California hives
Most people wouldn’t dare sleep feet away from 100,000 stinging bugs, but Charlene Potter wouldn’t have it any other way. Charlene is a beekeeper, and over the last 5 years, she has learned the ins and outs of the somewhat strange practice. USC Annenberg's Jeremy Lindenfeld filmed and interviewed Charlene while she went about her beekeeping duties. Whether you’re a professional insect lover or a casual honey connoisseur, you’re sure to get a buzz out of watching this bee-movie.
Producer: Jeremy Lindenfeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XO-PtsfuD0&t=24s

How to Bee
Most are not aware of how dynamic bees are and how much humans rely on them every day. With over 20,000 known bee species in the world, only 4 percent actually make honey. In fact, from apples to zucchini, bees alone pollinate $15 billion worth of U.S. crops every year.

With how heavily humans rely on bees to pollinate our foods the average consumer does not seem to be alarmed by the drastic rate bees are declining and edging toward extinction.

How to Bee aims to educate viewers on how neonic pesticides are a large reason why pollinators are dying off and reinforces the reality of the consequences humans will face with the loss of bees. Without bees, the cost of food will rise and many of the foods we love will be lost.

We must understand that we have the ability to make an impact by consciously changing our habits, using our power as consumers and voters to influence the outcome bees will have.

Filmed, Edited, and Narrated by Linda Mitchel
https://vimeo.com/654775782

DANCE OF THE HONEY BEE
from BillMoyers.com

Bill Moyers' presents and introduces the short documentary Dance of the Honey Bee. Narrated by Bill McKibben, the film takes a look at the determined, beautiful and vital role honey bees play in preserving life, as well as the threats bees face from a rapidly changing landscape. “Not only are we dependent on the honey bee for much of what we eat,” says Bill, “there is, of course, a grace and elegance they bring to the natural world that would diminish us all were they to disappear.”

Producer, Director, Photographer & Editor: Peter Nelson.
Narrator: Bill McKibben. Original music: John Powell. Audio: Merce Williams.
Intro Producer: Lena Shemel. Intro Editor: Paul Desjarlais.
http://billmoyers.com/segment/%E2%80%9Cdance-of-the-honey-bee%E2%80%9D-2/
Related article: Protect Honey Bees in Your Own Backyard:http://billmoyers.com/content/protect-honey-bees-in-your-own-backyard/

MORE THAN HONEY
Directed by Markus Imhoof
Release Year: 2013, Running Time: 91, Color Type: Color
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Language: English and German w/English subtitles

Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof (THE BOAT IS FULL) tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. Exquisite macro-photography of the bees (reminiscent of MICROCOSMOS) in flight and in their hives reveals a fascinating, complex world in crisis.

Writes Eric Kohn in Indiewire: "Imhoof captures the breeding of queen bees in minute detail, ventures to a laboratory to witness a bee brainscan, and discovers the dangerous prospects of a hive facing the infection of mites. In this latter case, the camera's magnifying power renders the infection in sci-fi terms, as if we've stumbled into a discarded scene from David Cronenberg's THE FLY." This is a strange and strangely moving film that raises questions of species survival in cosmic as well as apiary terms. http://www.morethanhoneyfilm.com/about.html

Why Bees Are Disappearing

Marla Spivak at TED Talk  June 2013

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world’s crops. Could this incredible species be holding up a mirror for us?

Marla Spivak researches bees’ behavior and biology in an effort to preserve this threatened, but ecologically essential, insect. Full bio »

https://www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_are_disappearing

Wings of Life: A Love Story that Feeds The Earth
Filmmaker: Louie Schwartzberg

"Unbelievable visuals and a plot that could never be written. Visually stunning and emotional seen from the flower's point of view. For the first time ever you will witness a world hidden from the naked eye - and it will be an experience you will never forget."   https://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination

QUEEN OF THE SUN: What are the Bees Telling Us?
Director/Producer: Taggart Siegel / Editor/Producer: Jon Betz

“The beauty of the seed is out of one you can get millions. The beauty of the pollinator is it turns that one into the million and that’s an economics of sharing. That’s to me the real economics of growth because life is growing.” – Dr. Vandana Shiva, from “Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?”

"In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. His prediction has come true with Colony Collapse Disorder, where bees are disappearing in mass numbers from their hives with no clear single explanation. In an alarming inquiry into the insights behind Steiner’s prediction Queen of the Sun examines the dire global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic beekeepers, scientists, farmers and philosophers."  http://www.queenofthesun.com