Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a 2010 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 directed by Taggart Siegel

Taggart Siegel

Taggart Siegel is an American documentary filmmaker. For 25 years, he has produced and directed Emmy-nominated, award-winning documentaries and dramas that reflect cultural diversity...

. The film investigates multiple angles of the recent bee epidemic colony collapse disorder

Colony Collapse Disorder

Colony collapse disorder is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term colony collapse disorder was first applied to a drastic rise in the number of...

. It also explores the historical and contemporary relationship between bees and humans. Featuring interviews from Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual."...

, Gunther Hauk, Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva , is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D...

, Hugh Wilson

Hugh Wilson

Hugh Wilson is an American director, writer and actor. He is best known as the creator and executive producer of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place....

, Michael Thiele (former bee keeper at Green Gulch Farm

Green Gulch Farm Zen Center

Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, or Soryu-ji is a Soto Zen practice center located near Muir Beach, California that practices in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. In addition to its Zen training program, the center also manages an organic farm and gardens...

), May Berenbaum

May Berenbaum

May Roberta Berenbaum is an American entomologist whose research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host-plants, and the implications of these interactions on the organization of natural communities and the evolution of species.Berenbaum graduated summa cum...

, Carlo Petrini

Carlo Petrini

Carlo Petrini , born in the province of Cuneo in the commune of Bra in Italy, is the founder of the International Slow Food Movement...

 and Raj Patel

Raj Patel

Raj Patel is a British-born American academic, journalist, activist and writer who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United States for extended periods. He is best known for his 2008 book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System...

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Awards

The film was an official selection of the 2010 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam for the Green Screen Competition. It received the Documentary Audience Award from both the Maui Film Festival

Maui Film Festival

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 and Indie Memphis Film Festival. It was 2010 Pare Lorentz

Pare Lorentz

Pare Lorentz was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was educated at Wesleyan College and West Virginia University. As a young film critic in New York and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in...

 Honorable Mention for the International Documentary Association

International Documentary Association

International Documentary Association , founded in 1982, is a non-profit organization promoting documentary film, video and new media, to support the efforts of documentary filmmaking and video production makers around the world and to increase public appreciation and demand for the art of the...

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External links

• http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2010/09/review_queen_of_the_sun_shines.htmlReview from The Oregonian
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• Review from film.com