89', Documentary - Italy, 2024
HONEYDEW
Directed by:
Marco Bergonzi, Michael Petrolini
Produced by:
Indyca with Rai Cinema
In collaboration with:
RAW SIGHTS
Screenplay:
Marco Bergonzi, Francesco Cibati, Michael Petrolini
Directors of Photography:
Marco Bergonzi, Michael Petrolini
Produced by:
Simone Catania, Francesca Portalupi
Editing:
Francesca Sofia Allegra
Original music:
Riccardo Nanni
Executive producer:
Antonietta Bruni
Line Producer:
Francesco Cibati
With the support of:
Creative Europe Media, Emilia Romagna Film Commission, Film commission Torino Piemonte - Piemonte Doc Film Fund
Honeydew is a remote location in the middle of California. It was here in the late 1970s that a group of people with different backgrounds but the same dream for the future came together spontaneously: to live a life free of all social, formal, and political constraints.
Honeydew welcomes anyone who needs a place to feel at home. Maureen, now an energetic 60-year-old, and her fellow adventurers defend a community in which one's freedom does not interfere with that of others, one helps only when needed, and personal autonomy remains the watchword of the entire ecosystem. Every Eden, however, has a shadowy corner, and Honeydew is no different from any other. Its inhabitants, in order to round up, have taken advantage of the particularly favorable environmental conditions to juxtapose the more canonical cultivation of vegetables with that of cannabis. A little help they have given themselves to round up, a sustainable crop sold to a few connoisseurs, that has
helped them remain even more estranged from the world. But with legalization Honeydew becomes a favorite destination for those entrepreneurs who want to take advantage of the new system to do business. Along with them Cody, born and raised in Honeydew, tired of feeling on the edge of the world, takes advantage of the new laws while Maureen and others try, each in his own way, to preserve what remains of their paradise.