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Making of Mermaid

In collaboration with Watergun Outlaw Productions, Bee Nest has another short film exercise in the can. Called Mermaid, this 4-minute “shortie” was an experiment into the absurd…not too far removed from the dark and absurd tones in our prior, award-winning short film, Apples, which you can watch here for free.

In Mermaid, the tone is devoid of being “dark”, yet still absurd, funny and with a good dab of social commentary. Producer Skip Shea once told us  at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival that our films remind him of the Czech New Wave film movement. And judging by the tone of our future scripts in development, Skip may have very well called it!

Here’s a screen shot of a scene in Mermaid with Lance R. Marshall and Ryan Jonze.

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Film Exercise: Snow Angel

When you get stuck in a cabin in upstate New York during an intense blizzard, what else better to do than make some art, right? And that’s exactly what Bee Nest Films did with our collaborators and cohorts at Watergun Outlaw Films. Who cares if there was only four of us, with minimum equipment, no script and 24 hours to shoot… When you have a passion for storytelling, not to mention pushing the envelope, then you take any opportunity to do so.

The synopsis is this: A man who is haunted by the suicide of his boyfriend is visited by a mysterious woman during the middle of a blizzard. Here’s the epic moment of this mysterious woman’s arrival, played by Shannon Beeby, who fearlessly braved the blizzard to get the shot: