"Bee": The Short Film

BEE won the Best Dramatic Short Award!

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:43:35 -0700

BEE won the Best Dramatic Short Award!

BEE is selected at the Sonoma International Film Festival in...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:49:22 -0700

BEE is selected at the Sonoma International Film Festival in April!

(www.sonomafilmfest.org)

San Diego Latino Film Festival

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:17:00 -0800

BEE is selected at the San Diego Latino Film Festival! The screening is set for Sunday March 18th, 2012 at 1:00pm.

www.sdlatinofilm.com/films/shorts-programs/

BEE Premier Showtimes

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:59:04 -0800

Wild & Scenic Film Festival Update: BEE will be shown on Saturday January 14, 2012 at the Vets Hall and on Sunday January 15 at Masons. Both screenings are in the afternoon. And here’s what the festival says: “We highly recommend that if you would like to see a particular film, please plan on arriving early at the theatre it’s showing at, and before the start of that session of films.” Details here:

www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/bee

Our first radio program!

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:32:00 -0800

Producer Emma Hitzke will be talking about Women in filmmaking and “BEE” tomorrow Monday November 28, 2011 on the radio. Listen to her live on KVMR (89.5 FM) or on the Web at 8:00 pm PST. Or you can catch the Podcast later on the same Website.
http://kvmr.org/index.html

Great news: BEE is part of the official selection at the 2012...

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:08:00 -0800

Great news: BEE is part of the official selection at the 2012 Wild and Scenic Film Festival. It’s one of the largest environmental film festival in the US. The film will premiere mid January in Nevada City, CA.

David E. Johnston is creating a beautiful animation for the end...

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:10:45 -0700

David E. Johnston is creating a beautiful animation for the end credits of BEE. He’s a great artist. With this the film will be complete.

Original Theme Song

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:39:06 -0700

Original Theme Song:

“Melodie For Sam”: this is the original theme song for BEE composed and performed by JB Dunckel.

Click on the title above to listen to it.

Enjoy…

BEE (Film Trailer)

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:30:47 -0700

BEE (Film Trailer):

Click on the title to watch the trailer for the short film BEE. It will be in festivals in 2012.

We just completed the film! Andrew Bower spent countless hours...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:02:01 -0700

We just completed the film! Andrew Bower spent countless hours working on the audio mix, Autumn Durald and Jeff Bierman worked on the color correction, JB Dunckel wrote a phenomenal score, and Daniel Raj Koobir edited it all together.

I started submitting it to festivals. I will know by December where the film BEE gets picked-up. The first festivals will start in early 2012.

(Photo: Scene at the Auburn Historic Sheriff Station)

I met with Andrew Bower from Red Dog Records this weekend to...

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:31:00 -0700

I met with Andrew Bower from Red Dog Records this weekend to work on the audio post production of the short film BEE. He was the location sound mixer on the set and now he does the audio post-production. He has been working really hard on the audio. Why work so hard on the audio? Audio post production is key to make a film look great: it’s all about those details to make you feel that the dialogs were all recorded in the same take, that the bees are near you buzzing. That’s how you completely immerse the audience in the film and the story.

Successful Kickstarter Campaign!

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:37:32 -0700

Thanks for the great support on reaching our goal on Kickstarter for the film BEE!

Here’s a great blog, full of advice to run a succesful Kickstarter campaign:

http://garrettgibbons.com/blog/successful-kickstarter-campaigns

Breeda Wool is in the New York Times!

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:54:16 -0700

Exciting news: Breeda, who plays the young entomologist in BEE, is in the New York Times today.

Our Kickstarter campaign ends in only 10 days and we’re at 66% of our funding goal. Please pass the link to the Kickstarter page to all your friends. (www.kickstarter.com/projects/391233736/bee-short-film-narrative)

Remember: The film will get funded only if we reach 100%!

In the editing room with Daniel last weekend, I realized I was...

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:37:00 -0700

In the editing room with Daniel last weekend, I realized I was missing a couple of shots to make the story flow better. We filmed them last night with Mike and with Emma as our hand model. We shot the close ups of the envelope with the pesticide label and the amarillo. In filmmaking jargon, it’s called a pick up shot.

BEE Kickstarter Campaign Launched

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:06:00 -0700

BEE Kickstarter Campaign Launched:

Be part of the adventure of making the film with us! Click on the title to get to the Kickstarter website.

And here’s the poster for BEE. It was made by French...

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:38:32 -0700

And here’s the poster for BEE. It was made by French artist Celine Caneparo.

Since we didn’t have too much sunshine during the filming...

Sat, 14 May 2011 10:32:00 -0700

Since we didn’t have too much sunshine during the filming of BEE, we went out again on Thursday evening to get a few sunset shots and bee close-ups. The close-ups of bees I wanted to get have been hard to film. So we will have to go again and film next week…

Editor: Daniel Raj Koobir

Wed, 04 May 2011 22:25:00 -0700

I’m now in post-production and I’m so excited to have Daniel Raj Koobir edit BEE. The features and shorts he edited went to the Sundance Film Festival, to the Berlin International Film Festival, to IFC Films, etc… He has a great sense for film narrative.

Check out his beautiful reel:

http://www.danielrajkoobir.com/reel.html

It's a Wrap!

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:17:04 -0700

We just wrapped three days of a fantastic shoot for the short film BEE. It went really well, and I enjoyed every moment of this creative process. Actually, I was so absorbed, I didn’t even take one single picture of the set. But the others have. I will share some photos soon. The cast and crew (16 people) were fantastic. We ended up the 3 days feeling “WOW, we’ve done something great.” Thanks again to all of you who worked on this project!!!

Smokers that are used in beehives. Photo taken at the bee-yard...

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:19:00 -0700

Smokers that are used in beehives. Photo taken at the bee-yard where we will film tomorrow.

"Bee": The Short Film

BEE won the Best Dramatic Short Award!

BEE is selected at the Sonoma International Film Festival in...

San Diego Latino Film Festival

BEE Premier Showtimes

Our first radio program!

Producer Emma Hitzke will be talking about Women in filmmaking and “BEE” tomorrow Monday November 28, 2011 on the radio. Listen to her live on KVMR (89.5 FM) or on the Web at 8:00 pm PST. Or you can catch the Podcast later on the same Website.http://kvmr.org/index.html

Great news: BEE is part of the official selection at the 2012...

David E. Johnston is creating a beautiful animation for the end...

Original Theme Song

BEE (Film Trailer)

We just completed the film! Andrew Bower spent countless hours...

I met with Andrew Bower from Red Dog Records this weekend to...

Successful Kickstarter Campaign!

Breeda Wool is in the New York Times!

In the editing room with Daniel last weekend, I realized I was...

BEE Kickstarter Campaign Launched

And here’s the poster for BEE. It was made by French...

Since we didn’t have too much sunshine during the filming...

Editor: Daniel Raj Koobir

It's a Wrap!

Smokers that are used in beehives. Photo taken at the bee-yard...

Producer Emma Hitzke will be talking about Women in filmmaking and “BEE” tomorrow Monday November 28, 2011 on the radio. Listen to her live on KVMR (89.5 FM) or on the Web at 8:00 pm PST. Or you can catch the Podcast later on the same Website.
http://kvmr.org/index.html