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Greetings from the UC Berkeley, Urban Bee Lab!
The Urban Bee Lab in collaboration with Heyday Books, are working with Team Candiru to produce the first ever film on California's native bees! We believe film is a great medium to raise awareness about these understudied and underrepresented pollinators. This new film will introduce the public to the 1,600 species of California's native bees and the hidden lives they lead.
The documentary will bring our book, California Bees & Blooms: A guide for gardeners and naturalists (Heyday Books), to life with breathtaking footage of California's unique, native bees! To do this, we are partnering with the professional documentary film group, Team Candiru from Bristol, UK. Specializing in filming the environment at a macro scale, Team Candiru will enable us to watch these bees up-close and personal, throughout their dynamic lifecycles!
The best part about Team Candiru is that their completed films are free for everyone's viewing pleasure and education. We intend for this film to extend information about the importance of native bees to thousands of school children, naturalists, gardeners, and researchers.
Native bees provide us the free and crucial ecosystem service of pollinating 100 food crops in North America as well as 90% of California's flowering plants!
If this short documentary film (~45 min.) project sounds as exciting to you as it does to us, we hope that we can count on your support. Our goal is to raise $99,000 for the film's production. We also need help getting the word out about this new and innovative project. If you are able to offer support, we would be happy to highlight you on our website (www.helpabee.org), in all promotional materials and venues, and in the credits of the film.
Here is what YOU can do:
1.Make a donation, everything counts, nothing is too small! Heyday Books, a 501c3, is the fiscal sponsor for this project, so your donation is tax-deductible!
2.Connect us with your community by forwarding this message to other listservs and
newsletters you are associated with.
3.Connect us with family foundations or others interested in pollinators!
4.Spread the word by sharing on Facebook and Twitter.
Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to working with you! For further information, please contact the lab at: urbanbeelab@gmail.com.
Cheers,
The Urban Bee Lab
Dr. Gordon Frankie, Jaime Pawelek, Sara Leon Guerrero, Mary Schindler, Laura Ward, Robbin Thorp and Rollin Coville
P.S. Please join us on March 26, 2015 at 7pm at The Beer Shed at Linden Street (95 Linden St, Oakland) for "Bees & Beers" a night to introduce and discuss the new film! The Dock offers plenty of parking and delicious brews. We'll provide some small bites. See you there and help us to "pollinate" by spreading the word!
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