Jon Betz is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker. His first feature film, Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? garnered 10 international awards and was critically-acclaimed during it’s U.S. theatrical release by Roger Ebert, The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter and Box Office Magazine. His previous film, MEMORIZE YOU SAW IT, is an intimate autobiographical documentary journaling his time as an aid worker living with former-child soldiers in Eastern Uganda.
Betz is the Director of Collective Eye Films, a non-profit media production and distribution organization dedicated to unearthing stories that make a difference. He is an advisory board member on a number of documentaries currently in production including BARGE (Ben Powell), THE INDEPENDENTS (Phil Busse) & OMELAS (Jelani Memory).
A proud graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Betz has worked as a director, editor and producer of commercial and independent documentary projects in locations ranging from Uganda to Jordan. He currently lives in Portland with his wife and 1-year old daughter.
[…] and what can Liberals learn from the gains of the Right? Also documentarians, Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz join us to discuss their movie, Queen of the Sun (@honeybeefilm) about the global bee crisis. […]