“Every Third Bite,” a collaboratively made documentary about vanishing honeybees
Written by admin2 on December 22nd, 2008Filed under: Irked Videos
Every Third Bite
Directed and produced by the Meerkat Media Arts Collective Winner of the Good Food Award Supported by the Clif Bar Family Foundation & W.K. Kellogg Foundation Official selection of the 2008 Media That Matters Film Festival
Every third mouthful of food you eat is pollinated by a honeybee. Without bees we’d pretty much all starve to death.
In the winter of 2006, honeybees in Europe and North America started to disappear. They disappeared by the millions. They disappeared without a trace. About one in every three colonies left their hives but never came home. Researchers started calling the mass disappearance CCD—Colony Collapse Disorder.
Bees play a central role in our food supply. They are crucial to our economy and our ecosystem. This is more than just a honey matter. Nature’s pollinators are dying out in epidemic numbers.
Watch a truly riveting documentary film after the jump…
“The Meerkat Media Collective, who created Every Third Bite, have managed the rare feat of making an uplifting short about a downbeat subject.”
—Kerry Trueman, on The Huffington Post
Some of the many Meerkats that worked on Every Third Bite include: Wendy Cohen, who co-founded Screening Liberally, worked as the Community Manager of Huffington Post and now works at Participant Media in Los Angeles; Erin Espelie, a freelance writer and producer based in NYC, currently serves as executive editor and a columnist for Natural History Magazine; Annie Novak, a Chicago native, is the Children’s Gardening Program coordinator for the New York Botanical Gardens (Bronx) and works with farmers at the New York City Greenmarkets; Eric Phillips-Horst is an award-winning cinematographer whose work has been featured on MTV, French-German public television, and in numerous festivals in NY and across the country; Jay Sterrenberg is a longtime meerkat, educator and filmmaker who has edited documentaries for ESPN and HBO; Gina Telaroli is a blogger, filmmaker and cinephile living in Brooklyn, NY who writes for the TakePart blog while running a weekly screening series and a free school called Project Film School.
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American Honey Producers Association
American Beekeeping Federation
PBS episode: Silence of the Bees
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We are also trying to bring attention to the importance of the honey bee and beekeeping. Through an unconventional venue, the Lithopolis Honeyfest, we continue toward our goal to preserve the honey bee and raise awareness not just here in Ohio, but nationwide and globally. Thank you.