Seeds

Centerpiece Film

Preceded by 5:30p Sowing Seeds discussion at 54 Main St. Please RSVP to Sowing Seeds separately.

A community of Black farmers in the south is painted in stunning black and white in Brittany Shyne’s debut feature Seeds, a film as sensitive and patient as farming itself. Following several farmers at work and in their community, the film captures the daily fight and the deep fulfillment of owning land while Black. One older farmer, eyes watering, struggles to get his glasses prescription filled (let alone paid for). Another farmer runs around with his granddaughter on land that will one day be hers. We watch huge expanses of cotton slip through the teeth of a harvesting machine, an image both simple and profound given the history of slavery in the United States and the continued barriers to black farmers in this country.