The Pollinators

Director: Peter Nelson

(Filmmaker is attending in-theatre festival in Friday Harbor)

Rob Stewart Eco Warrior Award at Vancouver International Film Festival

The Pollinators is a cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the beekeepers and their bees face en route reveal flaws to our simplified chemically dependent agriculture system. Beekeepers, farmers, scientists, chefs and academics give a broad perspective about the threats to honey bees, what it means to our food security and how we can improve it. 

Released in 2019

Running time:  92 minutes

Sponsor: The Toy Box

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Peter Nelson

Peter Nelson has photographed a wide variety of feature films, commercials, and documentaries in a multitude of film and video formats. His signature naturalistic style has taken him around the world to capture life as it happens for fiction and non-fiction films alike. Feature credits include Emmy award-winning Art & Copy, Sicko, A Tale Of Two Pizzas, Pipe Dream, Suits, and the cult New York romantic comedy Ed's Next Move, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

He has done domestic and international documentary work for PBS, HBO, BBC, and Granada Television. Recent commercial work includes campaigns for Google, BlackRock, Dunkin Donuts, Dell, SBLI, ESPN/NASCAR, and Perdue. Other commercial credits include spots for PBS, Stop and Shop, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Lifetime, Coca-Cola, Champion, and Calvin Klein. Peter received a BFA in Film and Television from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.