Collective Eye Films will present the U.S. premiere of the award-winning documentary film “SEED: The Untold Story,” from filmmakers Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27 and 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 at Lynwood Theatre.
Following the success of earlier films, “QUEEN OF THE SUN: What Are The Bees Telling Us?” and “THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN,” “SEED: The Untold Story” completes a trilogy of films that uncovers the invisible connections between our food and the natural world.
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. The film follows passionate seed-keepers protecting our 12,000-year-old food legacy.
In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared.
A cadre of 10 agrichemical companies (including Syngenta, Bayer and Monsanto) now control more than two-thirds of the global seed market, reaping unprecedented profits. Genetically modified crops engineered in their sterile laboratories dominate farmers’ fields and dinner tables in the United States and countries around the world.
For eons, cultures around the world have believed seeds to be our birthright: a covenant with the earth shared by all and passed down across generations. But today our seeds are increasingly private property held in corporate hands. Farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed-keepers fight a David and Goliath-style battle to defend the future of our food. These reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
The story of our seeds is a defining story of our time. Caught between the runaway juggernaut of industrial agriculture and the ecological, cultural, and spiritual destruction in its wake, seeds offer us a profound chance to restore mutual harmony between people and planet. They are the eternal promise of an abundant new world waiting to be born.
“SEED: The Untold Story” features Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbrell, Winona Laduke and Raj Patel.
The film won the Discovery Channel Environmental Award at the Sheffield Documentary Film Fest in England, Grand Jury Prize at the Nashville Film Festival, Best in Festival at the Princeton Environmental Film Festival and the Green Planet Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Tickets are $10.75 each. Visit www.farawayentertainment.com/show/seed-the-untold-story to learn more.
