LA ABEJA
This documentary follows a group of feminist beekeepers living on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. It has been twenty years since the US Navy stopped using Vieques as a firing range. Still, locals continue to live with the legacy of an army that savagely displaced the population and affected the use of their land. Through an ethnographic approach, we accompany the women of the Colmena Cimarrona during a week of work seeking to revitalize the land through agriculture and beekeeping.
DIRECTION AND EDITING Nelson Varas-Díaz EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sheilla R. Madera y Mark Padilla ASSOCIATE PRODUCER AND SUBTITLES Daniel Nevárez Araújo
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Environmental, Social, Economic, Political Justice Award – Latino & Native American Film Festival
Winner Best Documentary Short – New York International Women Festival
Isla Verde – Festival Internacional de Cine y Medio Ambiente del Caribe, Cuba
Official Selection, EcoAdor – Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental – Ecuador
Official Selection, CaribbeanTales Film Festival– Toronto, Canada
Official Selection, Latino & Native American Film Festival– USA
Official Selection, Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival– USA
Nelson Varas-Díaz
He is a professor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. He directed the award-winning documentaries “Colapso,” “La Oreja,” and “Acts of Resistance: Heavy Metal Music in Latin America.” Together, his films have won more than 100 awards at international film festivals.
