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Assisting you to deliver the full story for any production

Film and TV

​Authenticity and attention to detail counts for a lot in any production, and to take the time on inclusion of such a hot a topic as bees you will surely wish to portray the most sophisticated social insects on the planet in the best way possible.

Contact as soon as you go green and we'll jump on board  and provide support wherever you need it, from working with your teams AD on Art to get the desired weathered look you need, be that uniform or 'well used', and early advice from any tailoring of script terminology through to providing handling skills to actors to enable close-up authentic beekeeping, you'll find a complete and seamless service here.

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Mission

Our mission is simple; To work with production from as early in your project as you wish with seamless support to enable you to get the maximum gain from  our calm honeybees in your production.

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Advance Prep

We can train actors in the ablity to confidently handle  bees at our Surrey training facility in advance, possibly delivering a full intensive course in the full range  beekeeping skills if this is desired. We can equally well train on location pre- production. 

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Production

We can suppy hives(s) bees, beesuits for filming crew along with attendant wrangler  for the duration of your shoot requirements and also work with props to ensure continuity by further hire of empty hives on set as required

Shoot pics taken during removal of a large colony of feral bees from a Surrey village church tower for 

Keo Films 2015 'Ladykillers:Pest Detectives'.

Director Stephen Mizelas

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