Apiary Projects

Help FINAL GIRLS get their Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant! "Julia Yezbick: Filmmaker, Anthropologist, Editor, Curator and one of our beloved FINAL GIRLS. We're less than $1k away from reaching our Kickstarter goal, and bringing home the entirety of our Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant. If we don't reach our goal, we don't get any of it. Pledge now to support Julia and her community of women makers in Detroit."

Update 8: Cinema from all sides: Final Girl Julia Yezbick · FINAL GIRLS: DETROIT. WOMEN. FILMMAKERS.

About three years ago I had the good fortune to meet this incredible lady. We decided to start a support group for women filmmakers in Detroit and FINAL GIRLS was born. Today we're featuring her as part of our Kickstarter campaign to raise the remaining matching funds needed for the Knight Foundation grant we were awarded. Read about Jasmine below, get inspired, donate and share!

Update 3: Final Girl Spotlight: Jasmine Rivera · FINAL GIRLS: DETROIT. WOMEN. FILMMAKERS.

In recognition of the passing of General Manuel Noriega, BBC News just posted this story about the This American Life piece produced by Apiary founder Andrea Claire Morningstar about his unlikely friendship with a young girl (Andrea's friend Sarah York) from the woods of Northern Michigan. The episode will rebroadcast this weekend!

General Noriega's pen pal: An American school girl - BBC News When a 10-year-old school girl wrote to her country's foreign enemy, it started a bizarre relationship.

Our latest collaboration with radio producer Zak Rosen. A continuation of the series Bringing Up Detroit for Michigan Radio with support from the The Skillman Foundation. http://michiganradio.org/post/making-way-out-no-way

The piece follows Christina Lumpkin, a 58 year old grandmother whose gratitude outweighs her struggles. As Zak Rosen puts it: "I've learned so much from documenting the life of Christina Lumpkin this year. The most profound thing Ms. Chris teaches is the everyday practice of gratitude. Her year has been full of more emotional, physical and financial pain I could imagine undergoing, but at the end of it, here she is, telling us to "be grateful cause you have life, and that your alive to see it cause some aren't. Some people that was here last year ain't here this year. So just be grateful and thankful and don't forget where you come from."

Making a way out of no way This story is part of Michigan Radio's year-long series Bringing Up Detroit, which examines the inner-lives of four Detroit families as they navigate the

"Detroit needs more cowboys."
https://vimeo.com/apiaryprojects/motorcityhorseman
Dir. by Andrea Claire Maio

Motorcity Horseman Durell Montgomery is a self identified cowboy from Detroit, Michigan. His dream is to start a therapeutic riding center within the city limits. Two James Spirits…

Meet The Chang Family. Stellar by by http://ow.ly/UEius

The latest installment of Michigan Radio's Bringing Up Detroit. Meet The Chang Family: a Hmong family living on Detroit's east side. Radio story by Zak Rosen, video by Apiary. https://vimeo.com/144085742
http://michiganradio.org/post/laos-detroit-intergenerational-journey /0

Dinner with The Chang Family Meet The Chang Family, a first generation Hmong family that is one of the last remaining in Detroit’s Osborn neighborhood. This video is the first installment…

New York Philharmonic, UMS

We're making a short about MotorCity Horsemen and their collaboration with Two James Spirits and Johnny Noodle King. Thanks Geoff George for your stellar work!

Geoff George on Instagram: “actually happened #detroit #motorcityhorsemen #onlyindetroit” “actually happened ”

On location The River Walk yoga event

Founding Producer Andrea Claire Maio is a finalist in the Knight Foundation's Knight Arts Challenge Detroit!

Announcing 70 finalists in the Knight Arts Challenge Detroit Today, we’re excited to share the finalists of the 2015 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge - 70 ideas culled from 1,000-plus ...