{"id":2224,"date":"2022-03-21T02:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2022-08-17T03:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T03:49:05","slug":"save-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/save-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Save the bees\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpjOEHrMtZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It&#8217;s November 2020 and despite a deadly global pandemic, one young family decides to risk it all and travel from their home in Colorado across the country to celebrate Thanksgiving with the in-laws. But when they arrive, not even six feet of social distancing can keep them from having a close encounter of the third kind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Thanksgiving my family and I braved the pandemic and traveled across the country to visit my in-laws. I made a movie about the experience filled with catharsis, hot takes on 2020, UFOS, and a few bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made up Save the Bees as I went along. My nephew Carter helped me with the storyline when I arrived in Virginia and suggested the bee part. Recording my trip was a way to process my fears of traveling across the United States at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. I captured the majority of the movie  with my phone much like <a href=\"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/why-i-made-a-covid-19-horror-movie\/\">Coronut<\/a>. Most scenes were improvised in one take; blurring the lines between family home videos, captured at a poignant time in our planet&#8217;s history; pop culture, and existential sci-fi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00418%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"395\" data-id=\"2251\" data-link=\"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/save-the-bees\/official-selection-colorado-international-scifi-fantasy-film-festival-2021-black\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OFFICIAL-SELECTION-Colorado-International-SciFi-Fantasy-Film-Festival-2021-Black.png\" data-width=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/OFFICIAL-SELECTION-Colorado-International-SciFi-Fantasy-Film-Festival-2021-Black.png?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:49.99582%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1152\" data-id=\"2533\" data-link=\"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/save-the-bees\/official-selection-end-of-days-film-festival-2022\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/OFFICIAL-SELECTION-End-of-Days-Film-Festival-2022-1024x680.png\" data-width=\"1735\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/OFFICIAL-SELECTION-End-of-Days-Film-Festival-2022-1024x680.png?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Save the Bees Trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n3x95uRd_i4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Save the Bees Trailer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a movie about visiting my in-laws on the Thanksgiving of 2020.  It was an experience filled with catharsis, hot takes on current events, six feet of social distancing, a close encounter of the third kind, and a few bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[576,13,5,7,9],"tags":[698,715,721,714,719,720,717,716,712],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado","category-featured-portfolio","category-portfolio","category-travel","category-videos","tag-698","tag-current-events","tag-existential","tag-extraterrestrial","tag-family","tag-home-video","tag-pop-culture","tag-sci-fi","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}