QUEEN SUGAR
2026-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Amanda Cinema, 180 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, 90026, United States
ARRAY presents “Landings: Sowers on Screen” a film program centering documentary works by and about Black, brown and Indigenous communities and farmers, exploring relationships to land as sources of survival, resistance and liberation despite struggles against environmental racism. Our 12:00 PM showtime features:
QUEEN SUGAR (2016-2022) | Series Creator: Ava DuVernay
Based on the book by Natalie Baszile, and created by Ava DuVernay, groundbreaking TV series “Queen Sugar” tells the story of the estranged Bordelon siblings in Louisiana. Across seven seasons, directed entirely by women, we see the siblings and their family learn to put their complicated lives aside so that they can come together to run the clan’s struggling sugar cane farm. We’ll reflect on the series with a special episode, handpicked by Ava DuVernay.
Please note: Other showtimes in the day’s program require a separate ticketed entry. Guests must RSVP and possess a ticket for each screening time to attend each of the screenings.
PLUS, come ready to shop your values at Prosperity Market, a Black woman-owned farmers market on wheels, that is rolling up to our Creative Campus for the day!

EARTH SEED (2024)
2026-04-18 13:30 - 15:30
ARRAY presents “Landings: Sowers on Screen” a film program centering documentary works by and about Black, brown and Indigenous communities and farmers, exploring relationships to land as sources of survival, resistance and liberation despite struggles against environmental racism. Our 1:30PM showtime features:
EARTH SEED (2024) | Film by Fox Nakai, Jocelyn Jackson and People’s Kitchen Collective
Led by People’s Kitchen Collective, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands that happened from March – June 2023. The traveling group visited with people and places building models for survival and our collective future. Rooted in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice.
Please note: Other showtimes in the day’s program require a separate ticketed entry. Guests must RSVP and possess a ticket for each screening time to attend each of the screenings.
PLUS, come ready to shop your values at Prosperity Market, a Black woman-owned farmers market on wheels, that is rolling up to our Creative Campus for the day!
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC) works at the intersection of art and activism as a food-centered political education project. Based in Oakland, California, our creative practices reflect the diverse histories and backgrounds of our crew. Written in our families’ recipes are the maps of our migrations and the stories of our resilience. It is from this foundation that we create immersive experiences that honor the shared struggles of our people. We believe in radical hospitality as a strategy to address the urgent social issues of our time.

SEEDS (2025)
2026-04-18 16:00 - 18:00
ARRAY presents “Landings: Sowers on Screen” a film program centering documentary works by and about Black, brown and Indigenous communities and farmers, exploring relationships to land as sources of survival, resistance and liberation despite struggles against environmental racism. Our 4PM showtime features:
SEEDS (2025, 2hrs) | Directed by Brittany Shyne
SEEDS is a portrait of centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black and white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational black farmers and the significance of owning land.
Please note: Other showtimes in the day’s program require a separate ticketed entry. Guests must RSVP and possess a ticket for each screening time to attend each of the screenings.
PLUS, come ready to shop your values at Prosperity Market, a Black woman-owned farmers market on wheels, that is rolling up to our Creative Campus for the day!
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Brittany Shyne is an independent filmmaker based in Dayton, Ohio. Working in the narrative and non-fiction artform, her work seeks to depict the complexity of everyday life by examining themes such as personal histories, alienation, and cultural modernization. By utilizing observational techniques and poetic language, her films lyrically weave together frameworks of race, class, culture, and family lineage. She also works as a cinematographer on films such as THE DEBUTANTES (Tribeca ‘24), THIS TIME, THIS PLACE (Tribeca ‘21), and Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar’s academy award-winning film AMERICAN FACTORY 美国 工厂 (Sundance ‘19).
Shyne was the recipient of the 2021 Artist Disruptor Award from the Center of Cultural Power. Her debut feature SEEDS has received institutional support from Sundance, Black Public Media, Cinereach, ITVS, IDA, Doc Society’s Threshold Fund, Just Films | Ford Foundation, BAVC, The Flies Collective, The Puffin Foundation, The Points North Institute and SFFILM. The film has also participated in the inaugural PROGRESSIO lab in conjunction with ICA London and Cineteca Madrid, True/False’s PRISM program, Open City’s Assembly Development Lab, and the Catapult & True/False Rough Cut Retreat. She is an alumna of the Chicken & (Egg)celerator Lab and was a Firelight Media Documentary Fellow (2020-2022). Shyne received her MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University and a BFA in Motion Pictures from Wright State University.

LA MISMA LUNA (2007)
2026-05-09 12:00 - 14:00
ARRAY brings Mexican Mother’s Day to our Creative Campus with a curated selection of provocative films showcased as part of “Cine Con Corazon: Cinema Celebrating Mothers.” Our 12PM showtime features:
LA MISMA LUNA [UNDER THE SAME MOON] (2007) | Directed by Patricia Riggen
Single mother leaves her young son in the care of his grandmother and illegally crosses the border into the U.S. Though she hopes to eventually make a better life for herself and her son, she toils in a dead-end job as a cleaning lady in Los Angeles. When his grandmother passes away some years later, the boy begins a difficult and dangerous journey to join her.
Please note: Other showtimes in the day’s program require a separate ticketed entry. Guests must RSVP and possess a ticket for each screening time to attend each of the screenings.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Patricia Riggen is recognized as one of America’s leading women directors. She seamlessly directs films and television across genres, from her latest action thriller, G20, starring Viola Davis, to her Sundance success LA MISMA LUNA, the Sony Pictures box-office hit MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN, starring Jennifer Garner and GIRL IN PROGRESS featuring Eva Mendes. For THE 33, the gripping drama about the Chilean miner rescue starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, Patricia spent 30 days shooting underground in real mines. Regardless of genre, scope, or medium, she brings humanity to every character and story she tells.
Between feature films, Patricia directs pilots and episodic television for major networks and streaming platforms. Notably, she directed multiple episodes of the Emmy-winning drama DOPESICK, starring Michael Keaton, as well as the action-packed first season of Tom Clancy’s JACK RYAN.
Patricia studied film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her first short film won a Student Academy Award, a Student Emmy, and a Mexican Academy Award. Her second film, a documentary about photographer Gordon Parks, won the Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2011, she directed Lemonade Mouth for Disney Channel, a beloved classic among young audiences worldwide, which earned her a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award nomination.
Originally from Mexico, Patricia is one of the few women of color to have directed top-grossing films in the past decade.

CINE CON CORAZÓN SHORTS SPOTLIGHT
2026-05-09 15:00 - 16:00
ARRAY brings Mexican Mother’s Day to our Creative Campus with a curated selection of provocative films showcased as part of “Cine Con Corazon: Cinema Celebrating Mothers.” Our 3PM showtime features:
CHICANA (1979) shown with A CRUSHING LOVE (2009) | Directed by Sylvia Morales
CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women’s role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in U.S. labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their poverty, have become an active and vocal part of the political and work life in both Mexico and the United States.
A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer and farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author and educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera—and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.
Please note: Other showtimes in the day’s program require a separate ticketed entry. Guests must RSVP and possess a ticket for each screening time to attend each of the screenings.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Sylvia Morales has directed, written, produced and edited award-winning and nationally recognized film and video work for over 30 years. She directed episodes from the three seasons of Showtime’s groundbreaking series “Resurrection Blvd,” working with actors Elizabeth Peña, Lou Gossett, Jr., Michael De Lorenzo and Esai Morales. She also wrote and directed for the Showtime series “Women: Stories of Passion.” Morales was one of the producing and writing team members for the award-winning series “Chicano! The Mexican Civil Rights Movement” for PBS.
She directed for the ACE and Emmy-nominated six-hour series “A Century of Women,” which focused on 20th century U.S. women for Turner Broadcasting. Ms. Morales headed the Latino Consortium at KCET in Los Angeles from 1981–1985. She was responsible for the programming, production and distribution of programs that aired on PBS. During her four-year tenure at KCET, Ms. Morales hosted the Latino Consortium’s weekly national series “Presente,” and produced and directed Emmy-nominated and award-winning programs.
Ms. Morales produced, directed, shot and edited the widely recognized film CHICANA in 1979. She has received the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship Award in Media; participated in the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women; was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts; received the VESTA Award honoring the outstanding contribution of Southern California women to the arts; and was honored with a Salute to Latinas Award for distinguished work in her field from the City of Los Angeles. She was also honored by Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional’s 20th Anniversary celebration for “Latinas in Film and Television.”
