SC-S28/W2-Movie Highlights|Voices unheard(Seed (2025) )

Before I would even talk about the film, let me talk about the people behind the film. The director, Brittany Shyne, is a woman that knows how to capture life with camera. She didn't just direct, she also handle cinematography, so the way the soil, sweat, and laughter shows in the screen is a pure art.

The producers of this movie were ,Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Danielle Varga, Maida Lynn, and Leslie Fields which all of them join hand together to make sure the film carries much weight. Also the music by Robert Aiki Aubrey really gives the film a heartbeat, like someone beating the drum to call a community together.

But the real “cast” was the farmers themselves. These farmers was real people, not just actors. No doubt, their faces really shows it all, their voices, their struggles, and their joy too was what really makes the film very meaningful and powerful even interesting to watch.

This film is entitled Seeds (2025). The film is about Black farmers and seed keepers that people doesn't hear their story often and was release on this 2025. Normally, when we hear about farming movies, it's always poverty or struggle the will show. But Seeds change that narrative.

It shows how these farmers protect their land, their seeds, and their culture. You will see how the fight against climate problems, capitalism, and even cultural erasure. The film is not to pity them, instead it's to respect them. It present them as a strong people that knows what they are doing.

For me, it open my eyes that farming is not just to hustle for food. Farming is identity, it resistance, and hope. The film makes me to realize that marginalized communities as a lot of wisdom which the world do ignore.

However, this film introduce me to a whole new way of seeing seeds and farming:

• Seeds as heritage: I learn that seed is not just the seed we planted,it's also a memory, story, and language. Every seed carries history of family and the community.

• Land as connection: I see how the land in the movie connect people across the generations. Let's have in mind that farming is not just a work we do to earn or eat, it's also a relationship between our forefathers and us.

• Community strength: I understand that community is strong when they share food,what they have including thier knowledge together. The film shows how collective effort keeps the culture alive.

• Resistance in daily life: I realize that resistance is not always loud. Sometimes it's small daily actions like planting, saving, and teaching that can makes one's to fight oppression.

Honestly,it surely reminds me of some of our local farmers here in Nigeria. Yes ,truly their stubborn strength that doesn't faith, their quiet wisdom, and how the always hold and stood the ground despite all the problems the face is something thoughtful.

Therefore,this film really break a lot of stereotypes that's follows marginalized communities:

• Farmers as victims: Instead of showing farmers as poor victims, this film shows them as proud custodians of the culture.

• Tradition vs. modernity: It break the idea that's says tradition are backward and old stuffs. In this movie The seed keepers’ method is great, scientific, and sustainable.

• Single story of poverty: The film didn't reduce their life to only suffering moment. We can also see joy, laughter, and celebration even inside thier struggle.

• No external savior: Nobody came from outside to “save” them as we always seen in other movies. So they were their own heroes of themselves, capable of shaping their destiny.

This movie is interesting because many times, films always show rural life as a pity story. But Seeds shows it with respect and dignity.

While watching I do well to connect with different characters for different reasons:

• The elder teacher: The elder that was teaching the younger ones how to save seeds remind me of my grandma. The patience, the wisdom, the way she do pass knowledge to us quietly—it touch me and brings me the memories of her.

• The returning child: One character return from city back to farm life, I connect with it. That struggle between modern hustle and ancestral roots is something real which I feel too.

• The bridge builder: Another character that connect with farmers and markets, I relate with their hustle too. That balance of impact and survival is a real life moments.

I see myself inside their doubt, the little wins the had which put smiles on their faces, and their quiet tears. However, the honesty of their journey really touch me so deeply.

The line that really entered my heart was: “What we save, saves us.”

It make me think that if we do well to protect our seeds, our culture, our community, its them that protect and save us back.

Another strong message is that "Joy is a survival strategy. The way they sing, laugh, and share food together shows that happiness is not only on luxury things it can also be found in Little things and moments, which gives one's the strength to cope life.

Therefore memory is a seed—meant to be planted, nurtured, and shared with others.

So in all if you want watch a film that will make you to rethink life, identity, and community, Seeds is one of the movie I'll recommend. It didn't just just show marginalized people, it gives them voice, dignity, and respect. This is my honest take. Seeds didn't just entertain me, it plant something inside me.

_{Here is a clip of intro of the movie on YouTube by the director Brittany Shyne. You can stream the full movie on streaming plartforms}