Maya the Bee: First Flight (promoted theatrically as Maya the Bee Movie) is a 2014 3D German-canadian computer-animated comedy adventure film directed by Alexs Stadermann, loosely based on the 1975 anime Maya the Honey Bee as well as indirectly the German children’s book of the same name by Waldemar Bonsels. It features the voices of Coco Jack Gillies, Julia Sawalha, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Noah Taylor, Richard Roxburgh, Jacki Weaver, The Umbilical Brothers and Miriam Margolyes. It was released theatrically in Australia on 1 November 2014, and also in United States and Canada on 8 March 2015.
