The Producers

Daisy-May Hudson

Having met at University, Daisy-May Hudson, Alice Hughes, Claire O’Neill and Thea Paulett founded Beehive Films in 2015 during the making of their first feature. Daisy and her family became homeless after graduation, so she decided to start filming the process which developed into a feature documentary, Half Way.

Daisy had her talent recognised by BAFTA as a Breakthrough Brit shortly after the completion of the film, and the documentary was nominated for Best Cinema Documentary at the Grierson Awards and Best Documentary at the BIFA Awards in 2017.

Alice Hughes

Alice Hughes is a producer with credits spanning across cinema, award winning TV documentary series, music videos, short films and branded content. Alice's debut feature, Half Way, screened in Picturehouses across the country and was nominated for a Grierson and BIFA. The same year, it’s success led to the director being named BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. In 2019, Alice was commissioned by The Uncertain Kingdom project to produce a documentary directed by Ellen Evans, about people who had been deported from the UK to Jamaica. The film will be screened theatrically nationwide in early 2020. She is currently developing two feature documentaries, one of which was named ‘one to watch’ at Sheffield Documentary Festival 2018 in Deadline Magazine.

Claire O'Neill

Claire O'Neill worked in content acquisition at Audible UK for three years whilst producing theatre and the feature doc, Half Way, with Beehive films of which she is co-founder. Since moving into production full time, she worked as senior producer at Mofilm, creating content for global brands including Unilever, Chevrolet and Manchester United. She now works at Working Title films, where she assists Eric Fellner.

Making The Film

Making the Film

After her family home of thirteen years was sold off by the landlord and house prices in the local area were unaffordable, Daisy and her family had to declare themselves homeless and move into a hostel. Having never made a film before, it was at this moment that Daisy decided to pick up a camera and film day-to-day life living as a homeless family. Daisy felt that by filming the situation, she could take some of the power back in a situation in which she otherwise felt powerless. The filming process became therapeutic for the family, giving Daisy a sense of focus, and helping her family feel visible. Daisy continued filming until the family were rehomed into a council house, a process which took over a year.