Director Brittany Shyne didn’t grow up on a farm, but a family history rooted in agrarian work inspired her to make a film about Black land ownership and generational farmers in the American South. Shyne started working on the project that became Seeds, which won best documentary at Sundance this year, while still at grad school in Northwestern: an MFA thesis subject that she eventually documented for over nine years and 400 hours of film. The r…
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