SEEDS: Kaniehtiio Horn's Debut Feature Announces Principal Cast

Seeds follows Ziggy (Horn), who is offered her first gig as an online influencer, promoting Nature’s Oath, a seed and fertilizer company. When her cousin summons her back to the rez, she is forced into a battle to save her people’s legacy, finding her power along the way.

“Stepping behind the camera to write, direct and produce felt like a natural progression after 20 years of experience in front of the camera as an actress,” said Horn. “It’s been really exciting having this chance to flex the creative muscles I have gained along the way. Seeds is a fun genre bending dark comedy. It is particularly gratifying to bring Indigenous stories to life in this way, and I couldn’t have done this without such an incredible team supporting me.”

One of the projects that I was really looking forward to finding out more about was Kaniehtiio Horn’s Seeds. Already a fan of her from Letterkenny and Mohawk I wanted to see what she’d bring to the market. Seeds is a project that she wrote for herself to direct and will be a home invasion thriller, because, and this was the best mic drop in all of the pitches, indigenous peoples would be the first ones to tell you about home invasion. Blam! Her pitch was bare bones and brief but she promises a lot of humor and kick-ass action. It is a story about a woman who searches for her indigenous roots and in the process protects what is most valuable to her people, seeds from their crops, protecting them from an evil GMO company. Simply put, we need more indigenous genre cinema. Horn already has a following from Letterkenny and series like The Man in High Castle and Hemlock Grove. And who doesn’t want to see an indigenous woman give it to GMO goons?