Seed: The Untold Story

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Shioka O 01/27/2023 Visually and contextually well observed documentary. I liked the earlier part. It starts from the extinctive seeds and plans to mass cultivation and GMO. See more 02/06/2019 Not to be missed. Heirloom seeds are disappearing from the world, in face of hybridization and GM seeds. See more tommaso g 02/04/2018 The challenge of a movie about seeds is probably its very subject: scarcely cinematic stuff. Yet Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel achieve what might seem an unlikely goal: a fast paced, dramatic narration. The directors rest on some animation to pose a few of their arguments in dynamic, accessible fashion. But, most of all, they bank on a diverse group of seed daredevils, advocates and warriors. Their stories and deeds convincingly show that the future of the web of life that sustains our planet is shaped not only in the laboratories of large corporations but by passionate amateurs, brave women farming marginal lands, and local communities determined to protect food and health. Diversity of genetic material is key to ensure resilience; and the movie reflects this diversity in a variety of narratives behind a common theme. Farms, homesteads, indigenous people's lands, peasant households and local governments in Asia, Europe and the Americas articulate biodiversity across a prism of experiences and motivations. Will this movie get the audience it deserves? The directors are obviously aware of the challenge. If nature conservation can probably reach large audiences when it focuses on endangered mammals of high visibility, the disappearance of most cauliflower species may not, even if equally harmful. See more 06/29/2017 Beautiful cinematography! See more Frances H 04/15/2017 An informative presentation of the need for bio-diversity in agriculture and the dangers of the use of hybrid seed and pesticides. Very scary for the future! See more 12/28/2016 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 didnt belong in this documentary as while I understand Bio-Tech is hurting seed diversity, their community impacts by testing pesticides doesnt 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 more Read all reviews

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