United States 2024, 87 min, English, Hebrew subtitles
Sheila Turner Seed was an acclaimed journalist in a particularly turbulent decade in American history, between the Sixties and Seventies. The peak of her career was a series of interviews with photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, and Gordon Parks, whose portrait work reflected and shaped the zeitgeist. Seed died young, leaving behind a rich archive of audio reels, photographs, and journals, as well as one daughter, who, years later, embarks on a journey in the footsteps of a mother she barely remembers. In her deeply moving and captivating documentary, Rachel Seed pieces together other people’s experiences, stories, and impressions of her mother to create the portrait of a groundbreaking woman, a driven “life-aholic” full of curiosity and eager to take on the world. In the process, she searches for the missing piece in her own life amid moments frozen in photographs.
Previous Festivals: Full Frame, Hot Docs, True/False Film Festival, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival
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Production: Sigrid Dyekjær - The Territory (Oscar Shortlist 2023) / Apolonia Apolonia (Oscar Shortlist 2024) / The Cave (Oscar nominee 2019), Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman - Truffle Hunters (Sundance 2020) / The Fight (Sundance 2020) / Skate Kitchen, Danielle Varga - Teenage/Cameraperson/Bulletproof), Rachel Elizabeth Seed - I Am Greta (Berlin 2020, US Producer), Executive Producer: Kirsten Johnson, Executive Producer: Maida Lynn, Executive Producer: Hinda Gilbert
Production Company: Capariva Films LLC
Script & Research: Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Editing: Eileen Meyer - Crip Camp (Oscar nominee 2021) / The Disappearance of Shere Hite (Sundance 2023), Tyler Hubby (The Devil and Daniel Johnston), Christopher Stoudt (4 Seasons Total Documentary
Cinematography: Joseph Michael Lopez, Rachel Elizabeth Seed
Sound Design: Peter Albrechtsen and Rune Klausen
Music: Mary Lattimore
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