THE AILING QUEEN

A film by Pascal Sanchez

Directed by

Pascal Sanchez

Language

French

Produced by

Hugo Latulippe (esperamos films), Éric Deghelder (embryo productions)

89 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2010

Synopsis
At dusk in a remote part of the high Laurentians, a man works, collecting beehives. Nightfall brings a soft curtain down on the day’s labour. The beekeeper, Anicet Desrochers, a man strongly devoted to his calling, is worried. Bees, indispensable to the balance and continuation of the ecosystem, are dying in countless numbers – and nobody understands exactly why.
The Americas, Europe, Asia… every continent has been hit by bee colony collapse. No place on earth is spared.

 

Credits
Script : Pascal Sanchez

Assistant Director : Eve Caroline Pomerleau
Direction of Photography : Geoffroy Beauchemin & Pascal Sanchez

Sound Recording : Mélanie Gauthier

Sound Design : Mélanie Gauthier
Editing : Natalie Lamoureux

Music : Serge Nakauchi Pelletier

Productrice déléguée : Isabelle Couture
Production : Hugo Latulippe (esperamos films), Éric Deghelder (embryo productions)

 

Financial Partners

FMC

SODEC

ROGER Documentary Fund

 

 

Pascal Sanchez

After winning the SODEC-Telefilm Canada award for the series La Course destination monde, Pascal Sanchez made the short film Un Arbre avec un chapeau in 2000 which screened at Montréal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the TIFF. His next film was L’Île (2002), a documentary about farmer Henri Letendre, followed by La Reine malade (2011), a feature film that took both the RIDM Éco-caméra award in 2010 and the Gémeaux for best documentary in 2011. For his latest undertaking, Les Vaillants (The Undaunted), Sanchez also dons the hats of producer, writer and DOP.   Filmography   Les Vaillants (2015/ 79 min) La Reine malade (2010 / 90 min) Le Reel du fromager (2009 / 52 min) Manifestes en Série (2008 / 26 min x 8) Dessine-moi (2003 / 52 min) L'île (2003 / 26 min) Un Arbre avec un chapeau (2000 / 17 min)