Arquivo

Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, the film is an exploration of their lives, joys and struggles as well as the fragility of legacy and owning land. It documents their everyday lives — cotton harvesting, chasing cows, dealing with broken machinery and financial precarities –, and captures the families’ connection to the land and each other. But the sobering reality underscores the urgency of their story. Black farmers owned 16 million acres of land in 1910 but today, that number has dwindled to a fraction. The farmers in the community struggle to access funding that white farmers nearby seem to secure with ease. Through these inter-generational stories, we see the cycles of inequity and embedded racism that persist to this present day, and the signs of hope and renewal with younger generations of farmers.

Winner of U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.