Renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed died of a brain hemorrhage when her daughter Rachel was a toddler. Almost 50 years later, Rachel tries to reframe her understanding of who Sheila was. Filmmaker ...

“So many cameras.” Unusual in the pre-digital age, before rampant cellphone camera chronicles of everyone’s lives changed our visual landscape forever. This is what photographer and filmmaker Rachel ...

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to the award-winning documentary A Photographic Memory, the directorial debut of Rachel Elizabeth Seed.

Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed was just 18 months-old when her mother, renowned avant-garde journalist Shelia Turner Seed, unexpectedly passed away. Driven by a desire to understand who her mother ...

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS and a New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate, genre-bending portrait of filmmaker Rachel ...

An archival image of Sheila Turner Seed and Rachel Elizabeth Seed at home in London Credit - Photo by Brian Seed There are many paths taken by the things we leave behind when we die. They may find ...

Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s photographer mother Sheila Turner Seed died when she was just 18 months old, before specific memories could take hold — an absence that structures doc producer-turned ...

Anyone who enjoyed the odd documentary Sherman's March will instantly recognize the narrator in Photographic Memory. In Sherman's March, filmmaker Ross McElwee, ostensibly documenting Gen. William ...

Filmmaker and photographer Rachel Elizabeth Seed doesn’t have any memories of her mother, the renowned journalist Sheila Turner Seed, who died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 42 when Rachel was ...