Gatorville sos
2026

Rooftop Films Brooklyn, NY

with

Stacey Vazquez

Co-Founder of the Island Bee Project

Farm-to-Shorts— Humanity’s Complicated Stewardship of Land, Animals, Food Systems, and One Another

Through documentaries, narratives, and formally adventurous shorts, this program examines humanity’s complicated stewardship of land, animals, food systems, and one another. Please join us before the films for a presentation led by subject of The Keeper and co-founder of Island Bee Project Stacey Vazquez on the importance and logistics of urban beekeeping.

Rooftop Films Brooklyn, NY

Film Synopsis

Through documentaries, narratives, and formally adventurous shorts, this program examines humanity’s complicated stewardship of land, animals, food systems, and one another.

Air Horse One

Lasse Linder | Switzerland, Belgium | 21 minutes
Training, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is one of the most valuable and celebrated horses in show jumping. In pursuit of victories, she is flown between competition venues across the globe.

The Boys and the Bees

Arielle Knight | US | 19 minutes
On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while restoring their homestead.

Buckskin

Mars Verrone | US | 17 minutes
An experimental portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather: Carroll B. Williams Jr., a ground-breaking African-American forester, reflecting on his work and legacy in the twilight of his life.

Gatorville

Freddie Gluck | US | 19 minutes
In Colorado’s forgotten valley, two siblings face alligators and the ache of leaving youth behind.

The Keeper

Skyler Knutzen | US | 6 minutes
She tends to creatures in Manhattan that don't need elevators to reach the sky. They could kill her. But so could this city, just more slowly. My film follows a New York City beekeeper who is allergic to bees, yet tends hives on the rooftops of Manhattan's skyscrapers. She's surrounded by buildings full of people who've “made it”, and she's chosen to be outside with the insects instead.

They Put Us In The Woods

Cristin Stephens | US | 15 minutes
A group of West Philly teens find momentary respite from the instability of city life on a camping trip to the Pennsylvania wilderness.