And Still The Seed (Todavia La Semilla)
Sanfiorenzo skillfully connects the destruction of Puerto Rican greenery with colonialism and colonialism’s economic cousin, capitalism, and it stands apart from its National Geographic peers because of it.
Puerto Rican doc celebrates the bond between trees and people, while also peeling off the toxic layers of colonialism - from the Atlanta Film Festival
The credits for And Still the Seed, a Puerto Rican nature documentary short about deforestation and preservation, lists the plants in order of their appearance. This small gesture of visibility attests to the boundary-challenging circle of compassion held by the filmmakers. Very rarely do documentaries treat non-human life as worthy of an end-credit title, which itself signals a contribution to the film, but it’s fitting for director Llaima S. Sanfiorenzo’s admirable short.
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