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Honey at the Top

Honey at the Top

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 19, 2015

Runtime

0h 55m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Honey at the Top

Production Companies

Grasp The Nettle Films

Director

Dean Puckett

Description

Honey at the Top is a film about the Sengwer forest people of the Cherangani Hills, Kenya, being evicted from their ancestral land in the name of conservation. The film centres around father of two Elias as he works with his community to try and hold onto their culture and resist the evictions. It is an intimate portrait of this community at a crossroads, facing international pressure from organisations like the World Bank, a corrupt Kenya Forest Service who are burning their houses and attempts to turn the forest into a commodity through carbon offsetting schemes.