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Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?: Directed by Taggart Siegel. With Gunther Hauk, Kirk Webster, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan. A look at the mysterious collapse of honeybee colonies in America and an exploration of how beekeeping is practiced there and around the world.
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- Documentary, Drama
- Taggart Siegel
- 2010-04
Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva.
- The Characters
- The Bee Crisis
- Director’s Statement
Queen of the Sun follows colorful, alternative and inspiring beekeepers from all around the globe as they keep bees in natural and holistic ways. From Gunther Hauk in the United States to Massimo Carpinteri in Italy, each has unique philosophical and spiritual insights into their bees and is striving to keep their bees safe from pesticides, and the...
In the fall of 2006, newspapers around the United States began to publicize a unnerving phenomenon. Honeybees were a mysteriously disappearing from beehives all around the nation. Dave Hackenburg, a outspoken beekeeper, and the first to raise a stir about the crisis, reported that bees were simply vanishing from his hives. That fall, beekeepers and...
The following are interview responses taken with Director, Taggart Siegel by The Press daily newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand. I had no idea about the importance of honeybees until I read an article in 2007 that bees were not only so crucial to our environment, but that they were dying out on a mass scale, a phenomenon called Colony Collapse ...
Juxtaposing the catastrophic disappearance of bees with the mysterious world of the beehive, Queen of the Sun weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heart-felt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world. Featuring Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva, Queen of the Sun reveals both the problems and ...
Queen Of The Sun: What Are The Bees Telling Us? takes us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world.
- 81 min
Jun 9, 2011 · “Queen of the Sun,” Taggart Siegel’s revelatory documentary on honeybees, beekeepers and colony collapse disorder.
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Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this alarming and ultimately uplifting film weaves together a dramatic story of the heart-felt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers around the world.
