Talent Guide

Natalie Baszile

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2020, Documentary Story Lab 2025

Bio

Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which was adapted for seven television seasons by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey, and the non-fiction book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Legacy, which was an Amazon Editor’s Pick and was a Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, 2021. Her non-fiction work has appeared in National Geographic, The Bitter Southerner, O, The Oprah Magazine and numerous anthologies. Baszile was a SFFILM Resident and received the SFFILM / Bonnie Rattner fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Arts Program. Harvest is her first documentary feature.

Current Project

Harvest

Logline

The Nelson brothers are determined to be the USA’s biggest farmers, but after two years of poor harvests, the new year brings much opportunity as uncertainty. This season the brothers farm more land than ever, facing the headwinds of climate change, equipment failures, racism and familial tension along the way.