SEEDS OF CHANGE
Film poster for "SEEDS OF CHANGE". An image of several hands holding up various vegetables.
SEEDS OF CHANGE
Film poster for "SEEDS OF CHANGE". An image of several hands holding up various vegetables.
An organic farmer in Maine sets out to transform the prison food system

SEEDS OF CHANGE

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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: LESSONS OF HOPE - SCAD Savannah Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Big Sky Documentary Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Cleveland International Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Santa Fe International Film Festival

Institutional Food Reform • Criminal Justice Reform • Agriculture • Organic Gardening • Social Justice


Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 26 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director/Producer/Editor: Maximilian Armstrong | Director of Photography: Joseph Kosty | Original Music: Ben Sollee

Filmed over the course of two years, SEEDS OF CHANGE chronicles the intersecting stories of lifelong farmer, Mark McBrine, and several incarcerated men as they grow their own food on a five-acre prison garden unlike any other. In a place where life is routinely defined by shame and despair, good food can be a gateway to meaning, wellness and dignity. This is a story about the power of using organic agriculture as a means to reform our food systems and change the course of people's lives.

Nick Callanan | Festival Director, Maine Outdoor Film Festival
"A complex piece of narrative building, such an elevated work."

Janet Mills | Governor, Maine
"I am Proud of this Work...Seeds of Change is fundamentally a story of hope."