2008 was a year that has helped define how Collective Eye will look in the future.  Scott Ray Becker moved the San Francisco office to Sausalito and decided to make 2008 his last year of involvement with Collective Eye.  December 31, 2008 marked the closing of the California Collective Eye office.

In Portland, Collective Eye started its Distribution Department.  Cole Stamm was hired to serve as Director of Distribution and, with Taggart’s guidance, got this project off the ground.  Loretta Callahan designed and installed the back-end eCommerce and order processing function of Collective Eye Distribution and in January, we made our first sale to educational institutions.

Collective Eye Distribution introduced 17 new films into its catalog to accompany Taggart Siegel films.

Work on Taggart Siegel’s documentary on the honeybee crisis, Queen of the Sun, went into full production mode.  Taggart Siegel traveled across the United States and to Europe, Australia and New Zealand to film beekeepers and obtain interviews for the film. 

Taggart obtained interviews from powerful spokespeople and advocates for sustainable beekeeping, agriculture and food production that included Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva and Gunter Hauk