EXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson and her Viva Maude production company are executive producing Brittany Shyne’s Sundance Film Festival winning documentary, Seeds , which has been submitted for Oscar consideration this year. Thompson joins as EP with Viva Maude’s Kishori Rajan.

The documentary, which won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize earlier this year, is a portrait of Black generational farmers in the American South, following their joys and struggles, and their significance of owning land and the fragility of legacy. In 1910, Black farmers owned 16 million acres of land. Since then, over 90% of that land has been lost.

“Brittany Shyne’s Seeds is a quietly extraordinary work: clear-eyed and responsive to the textures of an American story too often overl

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