The Hive

The Hive is a short film written by Julie-Anne McDowell Hegarty, produced by How Now Brown Cow Films.

“The Hive is a heartfelt short film about a midlife crisis exacerbated by an increasingly stale marriage and empty nest. On screen midlife crises are often portrayed from the male perspective but The Hive is narrated through the eyes of our middle-aged female dramatic protagonist. This inner personal drama has a linear framework and takes place over the course of a few days. Thematically it is Flora’s “dark night of the soul” to shed previous conceptual frameworks of identity in her desire for validation. Her dramatic conflict of needing to let go of her kids yet wanting to hold on, whilst letting go of her marriage but needing to hold on, being attached yet feeling detached, wanting to be seen but being blind to what’s actually important drives her actions and at times rash decisions.

Screenplay: Julie-Anne McDowell; Director: Greg Karvellas; Starring: Julie-Anne McDowell and Andrew Buckland; Director of Photography and Editing: Daniel Rutland Manners; Music: Charl-Johan Lingenfelder; Production Design: Niall Griffin; Executive Producer: Daniel Galloway; Associate Producer: Casey Diepeveen; Sound Recordist: Lyndon Brandt; Sound Design and Final Mix: Morne Marais (Sound Surgeon); Colour Grader: Kyle Stroebel (Refinery); Hair and Make-Up: Kayleigh Stopforth; Crew: Brad Jackson and Nirvan Goreeba.

Awards

In June 2022 Hegarty was awarded the Writers Guild of South Africa (WGSA) Muse Award for the Best Produced Short Film Script for The Hive. In 2021, she was a winner at the Los Angeles Festigious monthly Film Festival and received a Special Jury Award for The Hive. The same month The Hive was awarded an Honorable Mention at the New Jersey Film Awards as one of their winners, was a semi-finalist in the London Indie Short and the Hollywood Just4Shorts Festivals, a quarter-finalist in the Wiki Screenplay Competition and is selected for the Madrid International Film Festival.

Sources

https://www.hownowbrowncow.co.za/hnbcfilms

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