Growing Life (Shades of Indigo - Blueberries)

In Woolgoolga, New South Wales, two Sikh brothers run a farm that grows blueberries and macadamia nuts. The film follows their work through the seasons, from the care of the plants to the harvest and beyond, showing what it takes to maintain a working farm while also maintaining a cultural and spiritual identity far from Punjab. Their parents brought the farming tradition with them when they came to Australia, and the brothers have built on it in a new landscape and a different climate.

The film is quiet and unhurried, attentive to the rhythms of agricultural life and to the connections between farming, family, and faith. The Punjabi Sikh community has a deep relationship with the land, and Growing Life traces how that relationship persists in changed circumstances, carried forward by people who understand the work as both a livelihood and a form of rootedness. It's a film about what it means to grow things, and what it means to grow into who you are.