Private Project

Black Seeds: The History of Africans in America

  • Bayer Mack
    Director
    No Lye: An American Beauty Story, Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood
  • Bayer Mack
    Writer
  • Frances Presley Rice
    Producer
    Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood, In The Hour of Chaos
  • Casey Conley
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Fabio Revo
    Key Cast
    "Christopher Columbus "
  • Ben Ayers
    Key Cast
    "Indentured Servant"
  • Brandon Bell
    Key Cast
    "Slave Narrator"
  • Jim Kirkcaldy
    Key Cast
    "Sam Adams"
  • Buchstansangur
    Key Cast
    "John Adams"
  • Giovanni Pucci
    Key Cast
    "Charles Leclerc"
  • Alex Cochrane
    Key Cast
    "Simon Hensby"
  • Rich Daigle
    Key Cast
    "White Southerner"
  • Tangi Greene
    Key Cast
    "Harriet Jacobs / Harriet Tubman"
  • Rob Sharp
    Key Cast
    "John Brown"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 9 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 23, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The African Film Festival (TAFF)
    Dallas, TX
    United States
    June 1, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Orlando International Film Festival
    Orlando, FL
    United States
    May 24, 2021
    Florida
    Official Selection
  • Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
    Philadelphia, PA
    United States
    May 10, 2021
    East Coast
    Official Selection
  • Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival Black History Matters
    Cleveland, OH
    United States
    February 27, 2021
    Midwest Premiere
    Black History Month
  • Denton Black Film Festival
    Denton, Texas
    United States
    January 27, 2021
    North American Premiere
    Best Documentary Feature
Distribution Information
  • Block Starz Music Television LLC
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Bayer Mack

Bayer Mack is a nationally-published American entertainment journalist, record executive and award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is best known as the founder of the independent record label Block Starz Music and its subsidiary Block Starz Music Television, which produced a critically-acclaimed 2014 documentary on African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux ("The Czar of Black Hollywood") and the 2020 Black Reel Award-winning ethnic hair documentary, "No Lye: An American Beauty Story".

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Director Statement

“It's a film I said I would never make. I have never been a fan of slave movies, but researching for this project gave me a newfound appreciation for the perseverance of our ancestors. BLACK SEEDS digs into the socioeconomics, and tracks the evolution of armed resistance to slavery in America.”