Saturday, September 21
4:00 PM
FILMS
Detroit Hives
Directed by: Palmer Morse, Rachel Weinberg
Honeybees lead the charge in Tim Paule and Nicole Lindsey’s fight against urban blight in Detroit. Their fast-growing Detroit Hives has resurrected seven of the city’s approximately 90,000 abandoned lots by setting up flourishing beehives. With Detroit’s more than 2,000 registered hives, the couple are part of a growing community movement. They built their first apiary on a lot purchased for $340 in partnership with Detroit Land Banks. As Nicole says, “you don’t have to have a million dollars in your bank account to start an idea.”
Post-Film Q&A with Co-Director, Palmer Morse
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Detroit Hives combats neighborhood blight in a pretty sweet way. The nonprofit transforms Detroit's abandoned vacant lots into bee farms for the conservation of honeybees. The organization aims to spread bee awareness and educate their communities and local schools about bees and the importance of their contribution to the environment. Learn more
Grizzly Country
Directed by: Ben Moon
During his time as a Green Beret medic in the Vietnam War, eco-warrior and author Doug Peacock looked at a map of the Montana and Wyoming wilderness for comfort. He vowed that if he got out alive, he would go see those wild places for himself. Peacock not only visited, but spent years in solitude there, filming his only companions — grizzly bears. The man who inspired The Monkey Wrench Gang’s iconic character George Washington Hayduke has made it his life’s work to save the habitat of these majestic animals, who remind us that humans’ place is not at the top of the food chain.
→ TAKE ACTION: Save the Yellowstone Grizzly
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly (STYG) fights for the safety and welfare of all grizzlies south of Canada. Their goal is to establish a large-scale grizzly bear recovery area with appropriate linkages, ensuring the long-term viability of bears in the face of imminent effects of climate change. Learn more
The Serengeti Rules
Directed by Nicole Brown
One day, some 60 years ago, an obscure young natural scientist decided to test how things work in nature by deliberately changing the natural order. What he discovered was a very basic fact of life. A rule of life, actually. Using a tide pool as his lab, and starfish as his study group, he introduced a revolutionary way of understanding nature’s elaborate, extensive and delicate chain of hidden connections. His methodology was quickly adopted by a small band of similarly obscure scientists, young men and women, and their tests all led to the same results. Their story, recounted in The Serengeti Rules, is uniquely hopeful as it reveals a proven fix, six decades in the making, to the modern bugaboo of biodiversity collapse.
GUEST SPEAKER
Palmer Morse
Film Co-Director, Detroit Hives
Award-winning filmmaker Palmer Morse focuses on using the tools of our visual and media culture to drive positive change. His films have been featured on National Geographic, Aeon Video and PBS, and screened in festivals around the world. The co-founder of Spruce Tone Films, Morse lives in Oakland, California, where he serves as the in-house video producer at the Oakland Museum of California. Morse is the director of Being Hear (Mountainfilm 2017) and the co-director of Detroit Hives (Mountainfilm 2019).
