SEEDS is a deeply moving and powerful exploration of three Black generational farmers in the American South, creating an intimate portrait of farming today. Deploying a visually striking observational approach, and utilizing rich black-and-white cinematography, filmmaker Brittany Shyne showcases these farmers’ lives, joys, and struggles, as well as the fragility of legacy land ownership. Black farmers owned 16 million acres of land in 1910, but today, that number has dwindled to a mere fraction of the original. Through these stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism that persist to this day, and the signs of hope and renewal with younger generations of farmers.
Winner of the US Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
…an incredibly rewarding journey, a film indebted to the past that feels brilliantly alive.
– Indiewire