Royal Jelly the movie, is NOT inspired by, or related to, the short story by Roald Dahl or its adaptation Royal Jelly (1980). The title is purely coincidental and is simply the term for a honey bee secretion produced by glands of the hypopharynx in "nurse" honey bees, which is fed to all larvae in the colony, but fed in especially large quantities to the future queen bee, in her "queen cell" in the bee hive.
Despite numerous scenes interacting with live bees, the cast and crew managed to avoid a single bee sting until the very last shot of the movie, when producer and bee wrangler Dan Allen was stung placing a lone bee on the windowsill in Mr. Burden's house.
Best Feature winner at the 2021 Rails to Reels Film Festival.
2022 Jxn Film Festival Best Feature Winner
Nearly all the main character's names are the names of wildflowers which bees pollinate and use to produce honey.
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