1. Join us for the Net Impact Film Screening
“Vanishing of the Bees”
Co-Director/Producer ?Maryam Henein
Thursday, June 23rd 2011
in Noyes Hall, Room 147
Bldg #72 on the map: https://sites.google.com/site/caltechnetimpact/
Film BEGINS AT 7:30PM
Followed by a discussion with Co-Director/Producer.
Snacks and drinks provided.
Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives.
Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three bites of food on our tables.
Vanishing of the Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees.
Filming across the US, in Europe, Australia and Asia, this documentary examines the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers indicate alternative reasons for this tragic loss. Conflicting options abound and after years of research, a definitive answer has not been found to this harrowing mystery.
Check out the trailer
https://www.vanishingbees.com/trailer/
Maryam has more than fifteen years experience working as an investigative journalist, a documentary and television producer and professional researcher. Her credits include producing documentaries for the BBC, Discovery, Robert Greenwald and Morgan Spurlock. As a journalist she has written for publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Science & Spirit Magazine, and The Cairo Times. The former Montrealer gained notoriety by breaking a story about Dodi Fayed’s imposter, who duped hundreds across North America and set a precedent in Canadian legal history. Working in front of the camera, Maryam co-wrote and hosted a program for TLC about the Ark of the Covenant. Following a near death experience several years ago, Maryam delved into the science of nutrition and alternative ways of healing. She also became more conscious about the environment and went on to produce a piece on the Exxon Valdez Oil spill for Robert Greenwald and The Sierra Club. She has worked developing numerous documentaries on topics ranging from Creationism to Family Annihilators. Her curiosity and tenacity energizes her work as a documentarian. Currently, she has become enchanted by and devoted to the making of a film about the The Vanishing Bees.
Spread the word! Hope you can make it.
2. Next Event: RAW MILK PRESENTATION
co-hosted by Caltech Net Impact & the Pasadena Chapter
of the Weston A. Price Foundation
You bring your friends and we will bring the raw milk…
Come learn how to build and nourish your immune system through raw milk! Share the Secret is an exciting Raw Milk educational outreach program provided free to the public by Organic Pastures Dairy Company and its founder Mark McAfee.
Share the Secret combines colorful power-point presentation, free raw milk samples and high energy speaking….to enlighten and inform. Armed with the truth and knowledge your health will never be the same again. Join the 50,000 raw milk consumers in CA that have made this choice and have never looked back.
Location: California Institute of Technology, Noyes Hall, Room 153
(See Bldg. #72 on the Caltech Campus Map: https://www.caltech.edu/map)
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Time: 6:30 PM – Gathering, Group Introductions, & Food Samples
7:30 PM – Raw Milk Presentation with Mark McAfee
Please RSVP to EITHER:
Net Impact Contact: Rosemary Rohde rohde@caltech.edu
WAPF Contact: Karen Voelkening-Behegan wapfpasadena@gmail.com
