Award-Winning ‘Seeds’ To Sprout At True/False Film Fest, Plus Dozens More Innovative Docs: “We’re Really Invested In Supporting Creative Nonfiction”

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Fresh from winning the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, Seeds will germinate at True/False, the acclaimed documentary festival in Columbia, MO.

Brittany Shyne’s film, exploring the experience of Black farmers who till the soil in the South, bows on the festival’s opening night on Thursday, with additional screenings on Friday and on Sunday, the closing night of True/False. “Seeds is such a beautiful film.

It’s one of my absolute favorites in the lineup,” notes True/False Artistic Director Chloé Trayner. “I know I’m not meant to have favorites, but it’s just pure cinema.” Long before the documentary’s premiere, it earned support from True/False. “Seeds was a part of our Rough Cut Retreat, which we run in partnership with Catapult Film Fund.

And so Brittany brought the project to the retreat along with her editor Malika [Zouhali-Worrall], and we spent five days together,” Trayner tells Deadline. “It’s just absolutely breathtaking… You can feel the filmmaker’s fingerprints on every single frame in the film, and it’s so confident and bold in how it kind of plays with structure and time and character and narrative.” Seeds is emblematic of the kind of documentary filmmaking elevated at True/False. “We’re really invested in supporting creative nonfiction,” Trayner explains. “We’re really interested in authored work and stuff that you can really feel the filmmakers’ hands at play.