Director
Pascal Sanchez
Production
Hugo Latulippe (esperamos films), Éric Deghelder (embryo productions)
Language
French
89 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2010
Synopsis
At dusk in a remote part of the high Laurentians, a man works, collecting beehives. Nightfall brings a soft curtain down on the day’s labour. The beekeeper, Anicet Desrochers, a man strongly devoted to his calling, is worried. Bees, indispensable to the balance and continuation of the ecosystem, are dying in countless numbers – and nobody understands exactly why.
The Americas, Europe, Asia… every continent has been hit by bee colony collapse. No place on earth is spared.
Credits
Script : Pascal Sanchez
Assistant Director : Eve Caroline Pomerleau
Direction of Photography : Geoffroy Beauchemin & Pascal Sanchez
Sound Recording : Mélanie Gauthier
Sound Design : Mélanie Gauthier
Editing : Natalie Lamoureux
Music : Serge Nakauchi Pelletier
Productrice déléguée : Isabelle Couture
Production : Hugo Latulippe (esperamos films), Éric Deghelder (embryo productions)
Financial Partners
FMC
SODEC
ROGER Documentary Fund
Pascal Sanchez
After winning the SODEC-Telefilm Canada award for the series La Course destination monde, Pascal Sanchez made the short film Un Arbre avec un chapeau in 2000 which screened at Montréal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the TIFF. His next film was L’Île (2002), a documentary about farmer Henri Letendre, followed by La Reine malade (2011), a feature film that took both the RIDM Éco-caméra award in 2010 and the Gémeaux for best documentary in 2011. For his latest undertaking, Les Vaillants (The Undaunted), Sanchez also dons the hats of producer, writer and DOP.
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Les Vaillants, 79 min, Documentary, 2015
La Reine malade, 90 min, Documentary, 2010
Le Reel du fromager, 52 min, Documentary, 2009
Manifestes en série, 8×60 min, Documentary, 2008
Dessine-moi, 52 min, Documentary, 2003
L’île, 26 min, Documentary, 2003
Un Arbre avec un chapeau, 17 min, Fiction, 2000