Trailer and poster for triple Sundance winner ‘Honeyland’
Honeyland, from directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, was the most awarded film out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, a Special Jury Award for Cinematography, and another Special Jury Award for Originality.
Hatidze, the last female beehunter in Europe, lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. In the exquisitely shot documentary, Hatidze must save the bees and return the natural balance when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
Neon will release Honeyland on July 26th.
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
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He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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