SXSW 2009 Film Trailer: The Last Beekeeper

‘Have you ever seen a lazy bee?’ asks beekeeper Jim Robertson. Bees have worked tirelessly for man for centuries. But now they are vanishing. Wrangling with the enormity of this loss, ‘The Last Beekeeper’ follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (form South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of one year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. As they all take their bees to California’s enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires the presence of the majority of bees in the US) it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind that they are

2 Responses to SXSW 2009 Film Trailer: The Last Beekeeper

  1. celestialrawgoddess

    I have a bee sanctuary at me house. I have thousands of happy bees. I wish I could save all the bees!!!!! Bless their sweet hearts!

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  2. SeattleWebGirl

    I saw this doc and it told such a compelling tale – the struggle of both the bees and the beekeepers. Yet the bees don’t have a fallback occupation like the keepers do. Good for ‘clelstialrawgoddess’ for keeping bees happy.

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