Posted: Thu 16 Oct 2008 18:01 Post subject: the Secret Life of Bees
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, based on the New York Times best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother (Burton). To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father (Bettany), Lily flees with Rosaleen (Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mothers past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Okonedo and Keys), Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina - a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introuced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna.
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Premiere: October 17, 2008
Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson star as two friends who run away from home in order to solve the mystery surrounding one of their mothers in this adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling coming-of-age novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys co-star in picture as three sisters who take the two girls in and teach them to care for and raise bees. Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) provides the adaptation as well as the direction for the Overbrook Entertainment production. Executive producer is Jada Pinkett-Smith.
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Gina Prince-Bythewood (3 is an African American woman film and television director and writer. She studied at the UCLA Film school, where she received the Gene Reynold's scholarship for directing and the Ray Stark Memorial scholarship for outstanding undergraduate. Upon graduating from UCLA in 1991, she was immediately hired as a writer on the TV series "A Different World." She continued to write and direct for a number of TV series, before making the transition to film direction with award winning films such as "Love and Basketball." She currently works and lives in Southern California with her husband Reggie Rock Bythewood, who is also a film writer and director and their two sons, Cassius and Toussaint.
2. Her most well recognized films include "Disappearing Acts" (2000) A love story about an African American couple in Brooklyn New York and "Love and Basketball"(2000) which was produced by Spike Lee and debuted at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. For "Love and Basketball" she won an Independent Spirit Award for best first feature and a Humanities prize.
She earned her first feature film producer credit for her work on "Biker Boyz"(2003). Which is a Dreamworks film, that she co-wrote with her husband. Although she is best known for her work on the films "Love and Basketball" and "Disappearing Acts", she has also written and directed a remarkable number of television episodes and series. Including, her directorial television debut on the CBS school break special "What About Your Friends" (1995) for which she earned an NAACP image award, for best children's special and two Emmy nominations for writing and directing. Some of her other television works include, Felicity (1999), Reflections (2007), Damn Whitney (1997) and the Courthouse (1995). She is currently working on the upcoming film "The Secret Life of Bees", which is a film adaptation of the book written by female author Sue Monk Kidd that should hit theaters in 2009.
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is an African American woman film and television director and writer. She studied at the UCLA Film school, where she received the Gene Reynold's scholarship for directing and the Ray Stark Memorial scholarship for outstanding undergraduate. Upon graduating from UCLA in 1991, she was immediately hired as a writer on the TV series "A Different World." She continued to write and direct for a number of TV series, before making the transition to film direction with award winning films such as "Love and Basketball." She currently works and lives in Southern California with her husband Reggie Rock Bythewood, who is also a film writer and director and their two sons, Cassius and Toussaint.
