
89’, Documentary - Italy, 2024
HONEYDEW
Directed by:
Marco Bergonzi, Michael Petrolini
Produced by:
Indyca with Rai Cinema
In Collaboration with:
RAW SIGHTS
A story by:
Marco Bergonzi, Francesco Cibati, Michael Petrolini
Directors of Photography:
Marco Bergonzi, Michael Petrolini
Produced by:
Simone Catania, Francesca Portalupi
Editing:
Francesca Sofia Allegra, Jacopo Quadri
Music:
Riccardo Nanni
Delegate 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 place in the middle of California. Here at the end of the 70s a group of people with different pasts but with the same dream for the future met spontaneously: to live a life free from any social, formal, political constraints.
Honeydew welcomes anyone who needs a place to feel at home. Maureen, now an energetic sixty-year-old, and her companions in adventure defend a community in which one's freedom does not interfere with that of others, people help each other only when needed and personal autonomy remains the watchword of the entire ecosystem. However, every Eden has a shadowy corner, and Honeydew is no different from the others. Its inhabitants, to make ends meet, have taken advantage of the particularly favorable environmental conditions to approach the most traditional cultivation of vegetables, that of cannabis. A little help that they have given themselves to make ends meet, a sustainable cultivation sold to a few connoisseurs, who
has helped them remain even more alienated from the world. But with legalization, Honeydew becomes the favorite destination for those entrepreneurs who want to take advantage of the new system to do business. Together 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 the others try, each in their own way, to preserve what remains of their paradise.






