Seeds of Time

Year
2013
Country
USA
Duration:
77 mins

Overview

Far in the frozen north, on a remote island near the North Pole, lies a magical and beautiful place that houses treasures beyond imagination. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built to store duplicates of seeds from collections around the globe to ensure the continuation of crop diversity in the future. All comparisons to cryogenics aside — a critique that’s been lobbed at the seed vault — Seeds of Time lays a convincing argument for the importance and urgency to create a physical database of the genetic material of South American potatoes, Thai rice varietals and Midwestern American corn — to name just three of the millions of seeds destined to be stored in Svalbard. Told through the eyes of one man, Cary Fowler, whose mission is to protect the future of our food and who is facing his own mortality, Seeds of Time takes a subject as esoteric, small and removed as global seed storage and gives it a persuasive human face.

Production Team

Director
Sandy McLeod

Festival Screenings

Featured in the 2014 Mountainfilm Festival.

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