A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.

Cash Crop REEL SOUTH

Premiered May 13, 2024
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Cash Crop

In Southern Virginia, Black farmers like Cecil Taylor balance their interests in honoring their tradition of tobacco farming against the onset of solar energy farms exploding across the region. Through Cecil, the film explores one rural county’s shifting economic interests and his own efforts to steward the community, including Black landowners, through changing times.

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REEL SOUTH

The people, culture, landscape and history of the South both captivate and bewilder. In the cherished tradition of Southern storytelling, Reel South reveals the South's proud yet complicated heritage, as told by a diversity of voices and perspectives.

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