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"Naomi Mark grew up and lives today in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Her mom and dad homesteaded there and raised five kids. Along with the way, he started beekeeping and passed the love of bees to Naomi. Her movie, How To Bee, chronicles a period of three years after Naomi moved back from college, and her learning how to keep bees with her chronically ill father.It is a touching movie about beekeeping in the far North and how honey bees strengthened family bonds through life and death." - Beekeeping Today Podcast
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b"Expect the unexpected. It's a motto for beekeeping - and life - that filmmaker Naomi Mark 's father passes on to her in this sweet and very personal documentary. When Naomi finds out her father, Don, needs help with his honeybees after being diagnosed with late-stage COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), she heads back to her family's Yukon home to learn how to take care of bees. The film follows their journey through three beekeeping seasons as Don shares his knowledge and they come to terms with his declining health. Through the inevitable beestings, hive death, and finally her first batch of golden honey, Naomi comes to realize it was never about learning beekeeping, but about spending more time with her dad. Intimate and deeply moving, How To Bee is both a meditation on the changing seasons of life and a loving tribute to her father." Following the broadcast How To Bee will be available online for free through Knowledge.ca   Editorial photo by GBP Creative - www.gbpcreative.ca In advance of the winter television premiere of How To Bee, audiences in 24 cities across Canada will have the opportunity to watch How To Bee on the big screen. Through a partnership with Demand Film, a unique distribution company focusing on demand based film screenings in a theatrical setting, we will have the opportunity to screen in 8 provinces. Demand also has the capacity to add screenings to additional cities through audience request. Follow the link to find tickets or request screenings in a city near you.
 Midnight Light Media Directors Naomi Mark and Marty O'Brien presented Grey Mountain to a sold out audience on June 15, 2019 at the Warburton Film Festival. Stay tuned for more updates as the film officially starts its festival circuit.
 Stay tuned for screening details... "MITY (Made in the Yukon) film awards highlighted the final Sunday night screening. The MITY professional award went to Grey Mountain by Naomi Mark and Marty O'Brien. Honourable mention went to Aubyn O’Grady and Evan Rensch’s Bridge." - Dawson City International Short Film Festival
For full festival recap follow the link. The MITY Emerging Artist Award went to Wrestle Maniac by Andy Pelletier and Robin Sharp.  Read the full press release here.
Its been a whirlwind of a year since we pitched Grey Mountain to a jury at the 2018 ALFF Pitch Event but somehow we managed to complete post production just as ALFF 2019 ramped up.
It was amazing to finally get to share the film with audiences at this year's festival alongside some incredible Yukon made short films. We plan on partnering with Jordy Walker of Stackwell Sound to make some changes in our music composition then its off to the races with a whole new slate of festival submissions. Stay tuned for updates on where you can see Grey Mountain. Midnight Light Media's debut feature film HOW TO BEE opens the Available Light film Festival2/3/2019 February is a busy month for us at Midnight Light Media. After just completing our very first short fiction, Grey Mountain we arrived back in the Yukon to premiere our debut documentary feature film, How to Bee. Produced with Flat Tire Films' Vivian Belik, How to Bee has been in progress for the past four years.
It was a complete honour to premiere the film as the opening film to Yukon's own Available Light Film Festival. Stay tuned for more screening dates here and on the How To Bee website. |
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