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.

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.