Producers Forum: Brittany Shyne

Scribe Video Center will be screening SEEDS (USA, work in progress).

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.

Brittany Shyne is an independent filmmaker based in Dayton, Ohio. Working in the narrative and non-fiction art form, her work seeks to depict the complexity of everyday life by examining themes such as personal histories, alienation, and cultural modernization. Utilizing observational techniques and poetic language, her films lyrically weave together frameworks of race, class, culture, identity, and family lineage. She also works as a cinematographer on films such as The Debutantes (Tribeca,’24) and Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar’s Academy Award-winning film American Factory 美国 工厂. Shyne received the 2021 Artist Disruptor Award from the Center of Cultural Power. She is currently working on SEEDS, her first feature documentary. The film 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, and Open City’s Assembly Development Lab. She is an alum of the Chicken and Egg Pictures: (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.

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