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A Documentary Film
A cheerful mural about bees. A corporation with good intentions. A community that had questions. What happened next couldn't be contained.
The Story
In the quaint Oakhurst neighborhood of Decatur, Georgia, German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG commissioned a lighthearted mural celebrating bees. It was meant to be a gift — colorful, community-minded, a symbol of corporate goodwill.
What Bayer hadn't anticipated was the conversation it would ignite. Residents began asking harder questions: about the plight of bees, about corporate sponsorship of public art, about the fragility of ecological systems — and about whether a company whose pesticides have been linked to bee population collapse had any business celebrating them on a neighborhood wall.
Buzzkill follows that conversation from its humble, paint-splattered origins into a sprawling inquiry about greenwashing, corporate accountability, and the surprising power of a small community to reframe a narrative.
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At the Heart of the Film
Bee colonies are collapsing globally. Buzzkill examines the real, measurable stakes behind the symbol — what we lose when pollinators disappear.
Who owns a neighborhood wall? When a corporation sponsors public art, does that change its meaning — and who gets to say so?
Angry allegations followed the mural's unveiling. Buzzkill interrogates the gap between corporate environmental messaging and corporate environmental action.
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The Filmmaker
Director · Journalist · Filmmaker · Author
Journalist, The Associated Press
Born & raised in Northern California
Based in Greater Metro Atlanta, GA
Ron Harris is a journalist for The Associated Press and a first-time director. Trained in the art of finding the story beneath the story, he brings a reporter's instinct for truth and a filmmaker's eye for texture to his debut documentary.
Buzzkill was completed in 2021 and marks the beginning of an expanding body of documentary work — three more films are currently in production.