Tooth and Nail Pictures
An Indigenous Woman-Owned and Operated Film Production Company
Tooth & Nail Pictures operates at the intersection of queer and BIPOC storytelling to champion narratives that are viciously optimistic, decolonial, and otherworldly.
We are headquartered on reserve on the ancestral and unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ peoples, and operate nationally out of Victoria, BC, Canada.
Tooth & Nail was one of 100 companies selected for the 2022 Banff Spark Accelerator and has collaborated with companies such as Archipelago Productions, Lopii Productions, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. We are in development on projects supported by the Canada Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office, TELUS STORYHIVE, Creative BC, and the Blood in the Snow Film Festival's Horror Development Lab.
Our Team
Current Projects
Browse our wide array of projects in various stages of development
Completed
Narrative Short | 25 Min | Drama
A love story set against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the opioid epidemic, Forest Echoes follows Echo and Wild, two urban Indigenous land defenders.
On the one-year anniversary of their arrest on the front lines, a death in their community opens old wounds but also offers them a chance to heal.
Written and Directed by Eva Grant
Developed with TELUS STORYHIVE, Creative BC, and ImagineNATIVE
Filmed on location on Vancouver Island, BC
September 30 - October 5, 2023
Pre-Production
NANCY
Ethnographic Photography Exhibit
an imagineNATIVE Original short premiering in June 2025
Pre-Production
Ethnographic Photography Exhibit
Eurasia is a hybrid, ethnographic self-portrait series interpolating archival photographs and generative art-forms to reimagine the history of the migratory peoples of Asia Minor.
Funded by the BC Arts Council
Exhibition coming late 2024
Completed
Experimental Short | 5 Min
Shot on Super8, this multi-media project features a single character transforming into 4 comedic archetypes randomly generated from over 150 terms derived from genre film, fashion, queer camp, web culture, and pop psychology.
Mechanism explores the ways in which laughter can be divorced from humour, particularly for those for whom laughter is both the only escape and the damning symptom of hysteria, malaise, and malevolence.
A multi-media immersive version of this work was advance-screened in Victoria, BC on July 30 and August 6, 2023
Written and Directed by Eva Grant
Created through the Art Gallery of Ontario's RBC x AGO Emerging Artist-in-Residence program
In Development
On an abandoned spaceship carrying life to a faraway planet, an infertile Scientist embarks on an experiment of hope and love for her future descendants, implanting her embryos within the plant systems whose genetic material is stowed on board.
Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts
Exhibition coming early 2026
Pre-Production
Short-Form Series | 6 X 15 Min | Heist Comedy
In this smart and stylish ensemble comedy, Indigenous PhD student Delphine Purcell plots a daring heist to return Ancestral remains to her Tribe. But first she and her team must outwit the white saviours and collectors who have descended upon the Community like vultures, ready to pick the bones clean.
Written and Directed by Eva Grant Developed with the Indigenous Screen Office, the Sundance Institute, the Canada Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, Toronto Metropolitan University's Transmedia Zone, and the Banff Indigenous Screen Summit/Netflix Diversity of Voices program.
Shoots late 2024
In Development
Narrative Feature | 85 Min | Horror
In this Indigenous fairytale, young mother Mia's sense of reality is put to the test when her child goes missing in the wilderness and returns not as one but as two.
In development with support from the Rogers Indigenous Film
Fund, CreativeBC, the ReelWorld Screen Institute, the Indigenous Screen Office, and the Blood in the Snow Film Festival & Deadly Exposure.
Written by Eva and Hunter Grant, Entity was workshopped as part of ReelWorld’s Emerging 20 program in the Summer of 2022. A Proof of Concept was filmed in January 2024.
Completed
Narrative Short | 3 Min
In this sweet, gothic one-take super 8 short, a Magician attempts to summon a fearsome prince of Hell, to mixed results.
Screened as part of the One-Take Super 8 film festival
In Development
OTHERHOOD
Narrative Short | 22 Min | Sci-Fi Drama
Clones Leila and Exa navigate who they are to one another and who they could be given the chance to decide their own fate.
Written and Directed by Eva Grant
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Forest Echoes Trailer
Mechanism
How to Summon a Demon
