This film is Supported By
UFO and Southern Documentary Fund

Directed by
Arielle Knight

Director of Photography by
Fernando Rocha

Associate Produced by
Alessandra Puig-Santana

The Boys & The Bees is shot on an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while teaching them the art of beekeeping. 

Dancing in the rhythm of the seasons, the film chronicles a year with the Rays and their bees. The film hums, buzzes and throbs with a terrain in flux. Landscapes shift, boys grow, bees are tended, mistakes are made, animals die, and new ones come to nest. 

The film’s scope is minuscule: a boy finds the courage to tend a beehive. The film’s scope is enormous: a family uses their love of nature to restore the severed bond between Black communities and stewardship of the land.


Director: Arielle Knight @a_c_knight
Director of Photography: Fernando Rocha @brownmanwithabrownplan
Associate Producer: Alessandra Puig-Santana @aleventureswithme
Film Stars: Rays Family @raysdwild

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