Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. With remarkable intimacy, Seeds illuminates the everyday lives of three Black generational farmers in the American south. Via director Brittany Shyne’s incandescent black-and-white cinematography, the film relishes moments both simple and profound–cotton harvesting, chasing cows, dealing with broken machinery, money worries, conversations through car windows, candy from grandma’s purse–as a method for honoring the families’ connection to the land and each other. Through these inter-generational stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism that go back centuries and persist today, along with signs of hope and renewal among younger generations of farmers.
Seeds
Tuesday, Mar 31
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OCOpen Captioned
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Seeds
Q&A with producer Danielle Varga
Tickets: $13 (members), $18 (nonmembers)
"Seeds is, at the abundant heart of it all, a work of protest art and political activism through sheer poetry. Attention must be paid."
"Brittany Shyne’s lens is held rapt by the ramblings and insights of the elderly, but it springs to life when it’s turned toward the next generation, whose future is of utmost concern in light of the socioeconomic tensions documented by the film."
SPECIAL EVENTS
Q&A with producer Danielle Varga
Tuesday, Mar. 31 2026, 7:00
- Danielle Varga is an award-winning nonfiction producer who has been working in documentary film for the past decade. Through her production company, Walking Productions, and collaborations, she focuses on bold and boundary pushing films. Her producing credits include Brett Story’s critically acclaimed The Hottest August (True/False 2019, Grasshopper Film, PBS Independent Lens), Todd Chandler’s Bulletproof (SXSW 2020, Winner of Hot Docs Best International Filmmaker Award), Vicky Du’s Light of the Setting Sun (Full Frame and IDFA 2024, PBS Independent Lens) and Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s A Photographic Memory (True/False 2024, Winner of Film Independent’s Emerging Filmmaker Award). Varga was also co-producer on Zackary Drucker and Kristen Lovell’s Peabody winning The Stroll (Sundance 2023) and Kirsten Johnson’s Oscar-shortlisted film, Cameraperson (Sundance 2016). She has also produced a number of programs for television, including a recent hour-long episode for PBS’s series Art in the Twenty-First Century. Varga was a 2016-2017 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and was selected in DOC NYC’s inaugural “40 under 40” class. She’s been an advisor for Sundance, a mentor for emerging filmmakers, and a consultant.
Tickets: $13 (members), $18 (nonmembers)
This film is part of the Docs Without Borders series.
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