Excerpt from WDTN
A Wright State University alum recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
The film festival began in 1978, and this year’s festival saw a local face take home one of their most prestigious awards.
“I’m still kind of processing it. You know, it’s obviously incredible and it’s a very huge acknowledgment, you know. And I’m really grateful for it, but like, it’s like every day I’m like, wow, this really happened, you know?”
Meet Brittany Shyne.
She’s a filmmaker who directed, shot and produced the feature documentary “Seeds,” the Sundance festival jury’s pick for best documentary feature.
The film is about generational and legacy farmers in the southern United States, specifically centennial farmers (those who’ve owned their land for at least 100 years — one of the family’s presented in the film have owned their farm since 1883).
