Television credits
NARRATED BY
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY
DOUG SHULTZ
SUPERVISING PRODUCER
PETER SCHNALL
EDITOR
MARK FASON
COORDINATING PRODUCER
WHITNEY JOHNSON
ORIGINAL MUSIC
GARY POZNER
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
PETER SCHNALL
ADDITIONAL EDITOR
CRAIG RINKERMAN
ARCHIVIST
CARRIE McBRIDE
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
AMBER FREIWALD
PEGGY LEGGAT
ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
MARK LAMBLE
JERRY RISIUS
DANIEL TRAUB
SOUND RECORDISTS
PAUL ALFE
CARLOS LUIS DANIEL
JOHN MURPHY
OLIVIER SIFRE
ROBERT SYLVAIN
PATRICK TILLMANN
MARK WELLMAN
CHRIS WEST
MERCE WILLIAMS
LOCATION MANAGERS
SANDRINE DUMAS
froggie productions, france
LU BO
china
ROLAND PALUGOD
camino media, spain
PHANTOM TECHNICIAN
GREGORY WILSON
ADDITIONAL CREW
LUKE DEIKIS
SAMUEL JACKSON
HENRY MILLER
ASSISTANT EDITOR
ALEXANDRA MEISTRELL
SOUND DESIGN & MIX
BRIAN BEATRICE
ADDITIONAL VOICES
PAUL CHRISTIE
TODD CUMMINGS
JIM HARTMAN
JAMES LURIE
PAUL MERCIER
COLOR CORRECTION
SANDY PATCH
ANIMATION
PHLESCH BUBBLE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT
REBECCA COHEN
LEGAL SERVICES
FRANKLIN, WEINRIB, RUDELL & VASSALO P.C.
STOCK FOOTAGE/STILLS
AMMONITE FILMS
AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
CORBIS MOTION
IMAGE BANK/GETTY IMAGES
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIGITAL MOTION
NEW SOUTH WALES DEPT. OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
OXFORD SCIENTIFIC FILMS
POND5
THOUGHT EQUITY MOTION
SPECIAL THANKS
COUNTY OF HANYUAN, CHINA
CENYC GREENMARKET
ERIC COOLIDGE
HAN YUAN TV
MAGGIE MILLER
OLYMPUS AMERICA INC.
PALAIS GARNIER
REGENT’S PARK LONDON
WHOLE FOODS MARKET
FOR NATURE
SERIES EDITOR
JANET HESS
SUPERVISING PRODUCER
JANICE YOUNG
SENIOR PRODUCER
LAURA METZGER
PRODUCER
JILL CLARKE
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
IRENE TEJARATCHI
PRODUCTION MANAGER
JULIE SCHAPIRO THORMAN
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
JAYNE JUN
MANAGER
EILEEN FRAHER
SOUND MIXER
DOUG JOHNSON
HD ONLINE EDITOR
DAVID NOLING
ONLINE EDITOR
BRUNO PELLEGRINI
SERIES PRODUCER
BILL MURPHY
EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE
WILLIAM GRANT
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
FRED KAUFMAN
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I would like to know if Doug Shultz can contact me, I am a bee biologist and decipherer of the beekeeping section from the ancient Maya book ( Madrid Codex) Interested in the film process to bring this story out.
The NC Zoo is opening a Honey Bee exhibit next spring (09) and I’d like to use some short clips from the Silence of the Bees in an educational interpretive area. Can you tell me who to contact and how to purchase the rights to use clips of the film? Thanks.
I am a graduate student at the University of Idaho and doing graduate research on Colony Collapse Disorder and the Incidence of Honey Bee Decline in the Palouse Clearwater Ecosystem. This is a highly agricultural area with pesticide and herbicide use. Do you have a list of resources outside of those that were mentioned in the film or at least a detailed list of those you did use? Thanks
Hi, I would like to translate this movie into my native language and to publish it with subtitles on my beekeeping website (not for selling, just to inform the other beekeepers about the CCD). I can do that if I will keep the credits in the begining and the end of the movie? Thank you.
i’m curious who funded your program… I can’t find any credits of which foundations or corporations helped you create your film.