2025
Feature Documentary(Philadelphia Premiere)

Seeds

OC
Open captions in-person

Seeds is a portrait of centennial farmers in the American South. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.

Thank you to our screening partners: Be Reel Black Cinema Collective, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Working Films, Black Documentary Collective

Directors Spotlight

Brittany Shyne

Director

Brittany Shyne is an independent filmmaker working in the narrative and nonfiction art forms. Recipient of the 2021 Artist Disruptor Award from the Center of Cultural Power, Shyne has worked as a cinematographer on The Debutantes (2024 Tribeca Festival) and the Academy Award–winning film American Factory (2019 Sundance Film Festival).

Year
2025
Runtime
123 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Director
Brittany Shyne
Producer
Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
Executive Producer
Leslie Fields-Cruz, Maida Lynn
Cinematographer
Brittany Shyne
Editor
Malika Zouhali-Worrall
Composer
Aubrey Lowe, Robert Aiki
Sound Design
Ben Kruse, Daniel Timmons
Music
Aubrey Lowe, Robert Aiki
Premiere
Philadelphia

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