Jul 22
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Macon Film Guild: Honeyland
Overview
SCREENING - Tuesday, July 22 @ 7:30
Film - Honeyland (Macedonian, documentary, subtitled, 89 minutes, unrated)
Complimentary Happy Hour sponsored by Fall Line Brewery starts at 6:30 and features bee-keeper Joe Money of Money's Honey. Free samples of Money's Honey will be available during the happy hour plus their honey will be available for sale.
Joe Money will also offer some brief words before the screening and will do a Q & A after the screening
Summary: Oscar-nominated for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film, Honeyland focuses on a middle-aged woman living with her ailing mother in a small village. Her source of income comes from the bees she cultivates and the honey they produce. All this changes with the arrival of a raucous family who move in next door.
Review Excerpts:
“…A luminous neorealist fable, a sad and stirring tale of struggle, persistence and change.” – New York Times
"Stunningly beautiful and quietly powerful, this is a portrait of a vanishing way of life and of a determined woman who's just trying to make her way in the world." - Empire Magazine
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