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There's a new film at the festival is called The Boys and the Bees.

Just Want to Prize at Sundance.

And it's about a real family with two sons, the dad's a beekeeper in Georgia. And I talked to

the filmmaker Ariel Knight. As she pointed out, the two boys are very different. Carver's

six, Arrows four. Arrow is the youngest and he's kind of always bouncing around. He's

comedic relief in the film. And Carver is the oldest, and he's a lot more serious,

he's a lot more thoughtful. Carver is the one who reminds his little brother what the rules are.

Arrow just breezes past them. And the way all this plays out and his family of beekeepers...

Arrow has been stung many, many times by bees. And Carver

has never been stung. And how do you explain that? I mean, you know, Carver is probably always

paying attention, taking his time, moving slowly. Rules follower. Exactly.

And the arrow just sort of puts on his suit too fast and there's a bee in there or, you know,

he steps somewhere where he shouldn't or he's just, you know.

They have parents who have made a very deliberate choice to spend a ton of time with their kids.

Birdwatching and fishing and going through the woods and lifting up rocks to see what's underneath them, explaining everything

about nature.

And there's a scene that Ariel captured on film of the boys with her dad, Nehemiah.

So we were wrapping up filming for the day, and Nehemiah, usually in the evening, will check on the bees.

So he's checking on the bees.

He's lifting the racks of beehives out of their boxes, and then he gets stung.

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