Jon Betz

Movies

Into the Okavango
Director of Photography
A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses.
Seed: The Untold Story
Producer
A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.
Seed: The Untold Story
Sound
A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.
Seed: The Untold Story
Editor
A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.
Seed: The Untold Story
Director
A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.
Creatures of Light
Camera Operator
On a summer's night, there's nothing more magic than watching the soft glow of fireflies switching on and off. Few other life forms on land can light up the night, but in the dark depths of the oceans, it's a different story: nearly 90% of all species shine from within. Whether it's to scare off predators, fish for prey, or lure a mate, the language of light is everywhere in the ocean depths, and scientists are finally starting to decode it.
Queen of the Sun
Editor
In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. Now, beekeepers around the United States and around the world are reporting an incredible loss of honeybees, a phenomenon deemed "Colony Collapse Disorder." This "pandemic" is indicated by bees disappearing in mass numbers from their hives with no clear single explanation. The queen is there, honey is there, but the bees are gone. For the first time, in an alarming inquiry into the insights behind Steiner's prediction QUEEN OF THE SUN: What Are the Bees Telling Us? investigates the long-term causes behind the dire global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic beekeepers, commercial beekeepers, scientists and philosophers.