About
123 minutes / B&W / United States
Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, SEEDS is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and owning land.
With remarkable intimacy, the film documents their everyday lives—cotton harvesting, chasing cows, dealing with broken machinery, and financial precarities. The camera relishes simple moments—conversations through car windows, candy from grandma’s purse as it captures moments of warmth, joy, and fulfillment—turning them into striking vignettes that honor the families’ connection to the land and each other.
But the sobering reality underscores the urgency of their story. Black farmers owned 16 million acres of land in 1910, but today, that number has dwindled to a fraction. The farmers in the community struggle to access funding that white farmers nearby seem to secure with ease.
Through these inter-generational stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism that persist to this present day, and the signs of hope and renewal with younger generations of farmers. SEEDS emphasizes how human beings are innately tied to our foundational roots, roots which carry our ancestral memories—somber, bitter, and sweet.
Awards & Nominations
Winner
Grand Jury Award
2025 Sundance Film Festival
Winner
Grand Jury Award
2025 Full Frame Film Festival
Winner
Best Feature
Documentary Award
2025 Athens International Film + Video Film Festival
Winner
Visionary Lens Award
2025 Ashland Film Festival
Winner
Kirby Walker Documentary Award
2025 San Francisco International
Film Festival
Winner
Best Director of a
Documentary Feature
2025 RiverRun International
Film Festival
Winner
Gold Lady Harimaguada Award
2025 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival
Winner
CIMA Award
2025 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival
Winner
Grand Jury Award
2025 Seattle International
Film Festival
Winner
John Schlesinger
Documentary Award
2025 Provincetown International
Film Festival
Winner
Best Musical Score
2025 Nevada City Film Festival
Winner
Best Feature Documentary Award
2025 Newark Black Film Festival
Winner
Best Cinematography
2025 Vashon Island Film Festival
Winner
Hernandez/Bayliss Prize for Triumph of the Human Spirit
2025 Middlebury
New Filmmakers Festival
Honoree
Albie Award
2025 Maysles Documentary Center
Winner
Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography
2025 Woodstock Film Festival
Winner
Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellence in Feature Filmmaking
2025 Tallgrass Film Festival
Winner
Green Star Award
2025 El Gouna Film Festival
Winner
Bruce Sinofsky Award for Best Documentary Feature
2025 Montclair Film Festival
Winner
Richard and Ellen Sandor Prize for Best Feature
2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
Special Mention
Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary
2025 Denver Film Festival
Nominated
Best Cinematography Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Nominated
Best Debut Documentary Feature
Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
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