A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.A film about the importance of heirloom seeds to the agriculture of the world, focusing on seed keepers and activists from around the world.
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Overall not a bad documentary and was interesting in regards to learning about seed diversity. However the entire movie segues to a rant against Bio Tech using poisons and the community impact which felt very unrelated to the topic at hand.
The movie starts by discussing seed diversity and how through cultivation we have lost a large portion of our seed diversity, and rightly so they touched on the Bio-techs impact on agricultural streamlining to specific varieties and how they impact farmers from saving seeds, and concludes with the efforts of local seed banks in saving the varieties we have and how they are trying to discover more.
In the middle though they segue to an island in Hawaii and the impact Bio-Tech testing pesticides is having on it. In my opinion it really didn't belong in this documentary as while I understand Bio- Tech is hurting seed diversity, their community impacts by testing pesticides doesn't effect diversity of seeds. This segue made it feel very much like this documentary was a cleverly disguised hit piece against the Bio-tech industry disguised with seed diversity.
Do not get me wrong I have no love for the Bio-tech industry either, but I do not like when a documentary tries to deceive the audience into believing they are watching something besides a hit piece on the bio-tech industry
The movie starts by discussing seed diversity and how through cultivation we have lost a large portion of our seed diversity, and rightly so they touched on the Bio-techs impact on agricultural streamlining to specific varieties and how they impact farmers from saving seeds, and concludes with the efforts of local seed banks in saving the varieties we have and how they are trying to discover more.
In the middle though they segue to an island in Hawaii and the impact Bio-Tech testing pesticides is having on it. In my opinion it really didn't belong in this documentary as while I understand Bio- Tech is hurting seed diversity, their community impacts by testing pesticides doesn't effect diversity of seeds. This segue made it feel very much like this documentary was a cleverly disguised hit piece against the Bio-tech industry disguised with seed diversity.
Do not get me wrong I have no love for the Bio-tech industry either, but I do not like when a documentary tries to deceive the audience into believing they are watching something besides a hit piece on the bio-tech industry
See this documentary now, it is an eye opener and you will not be disappointed. Informative with compelling interviews (Vandana Shiva, Jane Goodall, etc.), great animation and telling you the truth about who controls seeds around the world which is often hidden nowadays. It will open your eyes and mind: communities need to be the owner of seeds not corporations.
"If you're relying someone else for your seed, it's like you're relying on someone else for your soul."
"If you're relying someone else for your seed, it's like you're relying on someone else for your soul."
A documentary about indigenous people and heirloom seed collectors in different parts of the world revolting against dwindling diversity. Good suggestion to raise awareness.
Seed turned out to be a great movie. Coming into it I did not really know what to expect for the duration of the movie but came away from it a much more knowledgeable citizen on a really important and overlooked issue. I knew some of the things that some people might have been shocked to learn, for instance the mass suicides of farmers in India but I didn't know the whole picture, history and scope of the problem. I didn't know we lost so much that nature and evolution gave us (humans and animals), permanently gone. It was quite shocking to learn. I did not know much of the legalities and history that shaped what has transpired to bring us to the present situation. This movie I feel actually helps me to see this class and environmental law's importance more clearly. It (environmental law) is so important in shaping society. It really should not be hard to see for me: I took Geography 102 from Barney Warf where he repeatedly emphasizes that space (the environment) is intricately/interrelated (linked) to time and obviously us, and we are in turn influenced by it, in our culture, beliefs, distribution, etc. That is not hyperbole, it is the truth. On that note, I think the movie does a good job of not trying to depict itself as overly important or epic in importance. It doesn't need to as it seems to just give the audience the information (from a more environmental viewpoint, but like I said earlier, the environment is the whole biosphere (or ecosphere if you want) of the earth from our human point of view) and let them form their own opinions but mostly just getting people interested and more knowledgeable on the subject, which is exactly what is needed.
Our earth is a delicate, sensitive, living, breathing organism that needs the care and attention we have not given it. Taking it for granted and wishing to control nature have been the markers of modern life. However, ancestral knowledge always recognized the importance of maintenance of that ecosystem that supports our life. In Seed: The Untold Story, Directors Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz take us back to rethink that important relationship of communing with the earth that feeds us. "Seeds are living embryos. They have a lifespan," says a farmer in a voice over. There is a deep connection between these farmers and their seeds, which they see as living things that start a movement, blossoming into life and then sustenance. Read more of my review here: https://indieethos.com/2016/09/22/seed/
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- Semente: A História por Contar
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- $650,000 (estimated)
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- $207,825
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- $209,752
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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