Last Supper 2009- Meerkat Media Collective

Director: Meerkat Media Collective 

Title: Every Thid Bite

Genre: Documentary

Running Time:  9 minutes

Honeybees are responsible for pollinating every third bite of food we eat. America’s bees are at risk, though, as their number are being reduced by as much as 50% due to a mysterious phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. We set out to see what we could learn from the folks around us, taking to the road to visit beekeepers in Manhattan, Chicago, Nantucket and Long Island. We also talked to one of the top virologists in the field, and even some grade school kids who were in the show. Along our journey, we discovered that with proper care and nutrition, bees can stay healthy- and with ther contributions to fresh, local g=food and their delicious, allergy-alleviating honey, bees can help keep us healthy, too.

Bio

The Meerkat Media Arts Collective is an interdisciplinary group of artists dedicated to making media with a non-hierarchal and inclusive creative process. We take our name from the communal, prairie-dog-like mammal of the African Grasslands, and strive to share skills and ideas across the board. The idea is to make a kind of consensus art that inspires, encourages, and motivates others to tell their own stories. Meerkat Media has produced dozens of short films featured in festivals across the country and broadcast internationally. Our feature-length documentary, Stages, won the Audience Award for Documentary and the Best Documentary Awards at the 2009 New York Latino International Film Festival.