Ziggy is a thirtysomething Kahnawake Mohawk woman with a burgeoning career in Toronto as a social media influencer. Shortly after signing a sponsorship contract with Nature’s Oath, a seed company with questionable ethics, she is called back to the rez to house-sit for her cousin (Dallas Goldtooth). Things take a turn for the worse, however, when a violent man breaks into Ziggy’s family home to steal her aunt’s heirloom seeds. Ziggy is forced to fight back and protect her people’s land and legacy.
First-time writer-director Kaniehtiio Horn (who also stars as Ziggy) describes her film as a “home invasion comedy” inspired by Home Alone and Shaun of the Dead, and it’s easy to see the roots of her influences in this snappy and explosive thriller. Seeds is a bloody good time with a stellar Indigenous cast, including the great Graham Greene, whose presence as a television host and Ziggy’s spirit guide points us to his 1991 folk-horror Clearcut, which serves as a key inspiration in Horn’s exhilarating colonial revenge comedy.
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Kaniehtiio Horn, Graham Greene, Dallas Goldtooth, Patrick Garrow, Meegwan Fairbrother, Dylan Cook
Canada
2024
In English and Kanien’kéha with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Eva Thomas, Kaniehtiio Horn
Producer
Jennifer Jonas, Leonard Farlinger
Screenwriter
Kaniehtiio Horn
Cinematography
Jonathon Cliff
Editor
Lindsay Allikas
Production Design
Matt Ellis
Original Music
Alaska B
Kaniehtiio Horn
Director, Kaniehtiio ‘Tiio’ Horn is a Kanien’kehaka actress from Kahnawake, the Mohawk reserve outside of Montreal. Most recently she starred as Mari in the National Geographic series Barkskins, based on the 2016 bestselling novel of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, and currently appears as Tanis in the critically acclaimed comedy series, Letterkenny, created by fellow Montrealer, Jacob Tierney, for which she won a 2022 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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