• Albie Awards To Honor Oscar-Contending Documentaries From Raoul Peck, Geeta Gandbhir, and Brittany Shyne

    “This year, with the chaotic state of security in the world, we focus on the crucial role of the arts celebrating the values that bring us together in community and the forces that divide us,” Balagun explains. “The Albies this year look at a variety of timely topics: generational black farmers and the significance of owning land, how Stand Your Ground laws divide us and incite violence, and how our current times function in a playbook of global totalitarianism.”

  • IDA Awards To Honor ‘Seeds’ Director Brittany Shyne

    “Working in the narrative and non-fiction artform, Shyne’s work seeks to depict the complexity of everyday life by examining themes such as personal histories, alienation, and cultural modernization,” the IDA writes. “By utilizing observational techniques and poetic language, her films lyrically weave together frameworks of race, class, culture, and family lineage

  • THE WRAP
    Ronda Racha Penrice

    “A visual love letter to the Black, rural South, director-cinematographer Brittany Shyne’s ‘Seeds’ captures a rare snapshot of Black America, where land ownership is a birthright and legacy... Shyne creates a sacred space where these families can be themselves with dignity and pride.”

  • INDIEWIRE
    Esther Zuckerman

    “A remarkable portrait of America's oldest Black farmers and the resilience they exhibit…an incredibly rewarding journey, a film indebted to the past that feels brilliantly alive.”

  • THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
    Lovia Gyarkye

    “Quietly Stunning…With Seeds, Shyne helps spotlights the farmer, the mature and the budding, fighting to protect what remains.”

  • ROGER EBERT
    Robert Daniels

    “There is no part of “Seeds” that doesn’t feel like a priceless heirloom, like a window into a critical cultural history that must be maintained or lest be permanently lost.”

  • VARIETY
    Lisa Kennedy

    “A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration and lament. With the patience of a sower, Shyne lets the lives of her subjects unfold gently over two hours.”

  • SCREEN DAILY INTERNATIONAL
    Allan Hunter

    “Shyne’s feature debut… should establish her as a distinguished chronicler of the African American experience. Seeds is steeped in a wistful nostalgia that occasionally brushes up against a harsh modern reality.”

  • ROLLING STONE
    David Fear

    “A  work of political activism through sheer lyricism, and exactly the kind of discovery you come to Sundance to see.”

  • THE PLAYLIST
    Christian Gallichio

    An elegiac portrait of Black southern farmers, “Seeds” represents a profound excavation of the lives of a subsection of farmers struggling to stay afloat. Yet, despite the hardships facing her subjects, “Seeds” is anything but a lament. Instead (it) is a striking, yet unhurried, character study that is also one of the most beautiful documentaries to emerge from Sundance.”

  • ROGER EBERT
    Zackary Lee

    “‘Seeds’ is the type of documentary that acts as a sort of sabbath…the type of pensive picture that, in the commotion of life, acts as an invitation to luxuriate in what it explores.”