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Synopsis: SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. As chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Jon Betz (co-director), Taggart Siegel (co-director)
Production: Collective Eye
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IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PG
Year:
2016
94 min
Website
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'cause these are my children.

(seeds rattle softly in jar)

Indian people, we

talk in one language,

the language of the seeds.

The most important

thing in my heart

it's taking seeds

anywhere I can go.

My grandfather tell me one time,

"This is very

important for life,"

and he put me before he died,

before he died he put me,

full of the seeds in my hand

and he said this is life.

And put always in your pocket.

Because if you have

seeds in your pocket,

you can walk and eat the seeds

and if you have money,

you cannot eat the money.

This is gold! Seeds, they

are our own medicine.

When we have to eat, we give

a little bit to the earth.

I am working now for seven

years in Tesuque Pueblo.

We lost our seeds,

we lost our food.

Pero, when you losing the seeds,

you losing completely your

traditional ways of eating.

I bring some of the crops

to these Pueblo people.

Quinoa, Amaranth.

The lost crops of the Incas.

It's part of this prophecy,

the condor and the eagle.

Exchanging seeds,

exchanging knowledge.

In all these bags you see,

we have different

type of the seeds.

This trailer there

was not one seed.

Seven years

we fill up with our

work, with our sweat,

and this is food for the future.

These seeds,

they're not very happy

because they're one

on the top of the other one.

They are beginning to tell

us "We need a new house."

A place where they

can have a home,

like us.

(soft and calm flute music)

Native Seeds/SEARCH

is a seed bank.

(seeds crackle off husk)

Most of the seeds came to

us through Native Americans.

As modern creatures,

we're in debt to that.

They are the last

expression of these stewards

going back thousands of years

that took care of these things

and made sure that we got them.

I had somebody the other day

call this Fort Knox. (laughs)

There's just so

much wealth in here.

There's about two thousand

different varieties

of invaluable

agricultural crops.

All 38 generations,

all this energy comes

down into the seed,

you get to hold it and

then all the future

and the millions more that

can come out goes out.

And you are at that point

when you hold those seeds

in your hands.

Right here is the mother corn.

This is the ancient ancestor

from which all corn came.

And that's what we're losing.

I mean we just don't

have the time left again

on this small planet to

recreate all this stuff.

That's why it's so invaluable.

Once it's gone, it's gone.

Seeds are living embryos.

They do have a life span.

(calm but melancholy music)

We try to grow everything

out every 10 years,

that's why we have

the 60 acre farm here.

We are hugely vulnerable

with all of those seeds.

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