JoyDrops: Five Weeks of Feel-Good Award-Hopeful Short Docs

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorGood News Network and Switchboard Magazine have teamed up on JoyDrops, a five-week run of awards-season documentary short films, one film each week.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAwards-season documentary shorts that are happy. That's a genre someone had to announce.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEach film comes with an interview from its director, and the filmmakers have already collected numerous accolades on the festival circuit.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's a drip release. Joy, weekly, with a behind-the-scenes extra.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOne film is The Boys and the Bees, directed by Arielle Knight, set on a rural Georgia farm where a beekeeping couple teaches their two young sons.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBees, kids, a farm. That's the algorithm's dream.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShort docs have a reputation for being sad, so the series is, as I read it, a reputation recovery program with honey.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSadness gets the nominations and happiness gets a content calendar. Clip it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFive weeks of happiness, and I'm told the director interviews are optional. You could watch the bees and skip the press tour.