Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The Fresno Bee


Dennis Pollack reviewed Pollen Nation for the Business section of the Fresno Bee, just before the screening in the Fresno Filmworks Festival.

Here's an excerpt:

Pollen Nation" offers no answers to the health plight of the bees and beekeepers' battles with colony-collapse disorder. Nor is it a heavy-handed environmentalist polemic.

But it does raise the question of what happens when the ways of agriculture -- growing almonds on huge plots of land as a "monoculture" with no other pollinators and little other foliage around -- clash with nature's needs for honeybees and the bees' need for year-round forage.

"God didn't make bees to run all over the country like this," said beekeeper David Hackenberg, who runs bees up and down the East Coast from Florida to Maine, and also occasionally out to California's almonds.

His remarks pinpointed the artificial way nature is controlled and the stresses it can place on the bees.

Ohio for the Bees

Thanks Ohio! Film lovers voted Pollen Nation "Best Short Documentary" at the Oxford International Film Festival last month.

On the Banks of the Chattahoochee

Pollen Nation will screen with a great line-up of environmental films from the Wild & Scenic Film Festival at 7pm Wednesday, April 23rd in the auditorium of the new Columbus Library on Macon Road, in Columbus, GA. The event is free and open to the public.

Call Chattahoochee RiverWatch at 706-317-4837 for information

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Fresno Film Festival

The agricultural community is our most important audience, so we're thrilled to be filming at the Fresno Film Festival, in the heart of the Central Valley.

The screening will be held at the historic Tower Theater at 1:30 pm on Saturday, April 19th. 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
$10.00 General Admission
$8.00 for Students and Seniors
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