FIT Hives: Sustainability - The Secret to Survival

Apr 8, 2017

0h 9m

★ 10.0

Overview

A documentary that introduces FIT Hives, a student-run organization whose mission is to educate the FIT community about the importance of bees to the environment, the use of bee-derived resources in the industries related to the majors at FIT and its goal to put a beehive on the roof. FIT Hives is a recipient of an FIT Innovation Grant which also supported the making of this documentary.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Hechtman Filmworks

Fashion Institute of Technology

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Cast

Self

Sarah Lagenbach

Self

Shona Neary

Self

Virginia Bonofiglio

Self

Jillian Oderwald

Self

Wendy Yothers

Self

Sass Brown

Self

Sasha Wright

Self

David Heath

Self

Guillermo Fernandez

Self

Lisa Pressman

Self

Ed Diamond

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