Wed 5/14 @ 7PM
As the sustainable food movement has snowballed in recent years, so has the conversation around seeds and who can “own” them. More attention — and alarm — has been directed at big corporate entities which have “patented” seeds, putting them out of affordable reach of growers and forcing dependence on those corporations.
The 2013 film Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds tackles the issue, exploring how seeds are at the root of food accessibility and affordability and the impact of turning them into private property.
According to filmmaker M. Sean Kaminski, “In the past, seeds were communal. They were a shared resource not unlike the water we drink or the air we breathe. One hundred years ago things started to change. Today, corporate-owned seed accounts for 82% of the worldwide market. Seeds are no longer ‘free’ or open source, they are proprietary.”
The film will have a single screening at Gordon Square’s Capitol Theater, sponsored by the Cleveland Seed Bank.
Tickets are $10. You can order them here.