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Seeds

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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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Director
Cast

Kaniehtiio Horn, Graham Greene, Dallas Goldtooth, Patrick Garrow, Meegwan Fairbrother, Dylan Cook

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2024

Language

In English and Kanien’kéha with English subtitles

Film Contact
18+

At International Village

19+

At The Rio

87 min
Action & Suspense Comedy Horror & Sci-Fi Indigenous Cinema Women Directors
Carpe Dee Yum Productions, New Real Films, Kaniehtiio Horn-Batt Entertainment

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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 headshot; Seeds director

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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