An Indigenous Female-Led Media Production Company
The more we tell the story, the more the story tells us, and the more the story is told.
Based on the Tsawout Reserve Lands forming part of the Ancestral and Unceded Territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking and WSÁNEĆ Peoples of Vancouver Island, Tooth & Nail Pictures is an Indigenous, female-led multi-media production company founded by Eva Grant, an Indigenous-Eurasian artist, filmmaker, digital designer, curator, writer, and public speaker. Eva's groundbreaking, interdisciplinary works have been featured across Canada as well as Internationally, and cover a wide arr including film, digital-interactive installations, and immersive media.
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Tooth & Nail is part of a movement of homegrown Indigital creatives, futurists, and educators revolutionizing modern media and modern thought. Combining narration, curation, history, ecology, philosophy, and social justice, our work draws from Indigenous knowledge, speculative fiction, climate science, disability justice, and emerging technologies. Imagining more robust, and expansive futures, we collaborate with artists, researchers, community organizations, and technologists to create projects that move fluidly between museums, galleries, festivals, digital media, and virtual platforms.
Tooth & Nail’s projects are supported by the First People’s Cultural Council, the Sundance Institute, the National Film Board, the Canada Media Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office, Telus Storyhive, the National Screen Institute, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the CBC, the Indigenous Curatorial Collective,Creative BC, the Canada Council for the Arts, imagineNATIVE, the BC Arts Council, and Vancouver Film Studios.
NANCY
Short-Form Historical Narrative
10 minutes
THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
BUT FICTION IS NO STRANGER TO TRUTH
In 1893, an Inuk baby from Nunatsiavut. Labrador named Nancy Columbia Palmer Eneutseak was born in a fake igloo at a human zoo at the Chicago World's Fair. Born into spectacle, viewed as a curiosity by the colonial gaze, she was named not by sacred ceremony but by contest for the right to confer her identity, assign her validity, and confine her place. But such cages were never meant to hold her.
LIGHT THE STARS
Narrative Short | 12min
Written and Directed by Hunter Grant
Lensed by Eva Grant
Recipient of the 2025 Vancouver Film Studios Indigenous Filmmaker Award
Told with compassion and care, Light the Stars illuminates that sometimes-awkward, sometimes-painful transition from adolescence to young adulthood, when smooth-sailing childhood friendships must navigate the tumultuous complexities of adult relationships.
Taking place over the course of a single night, the film centres Taylor and Alex, once inseparable besties, as they reconnect with their high school friends -- and each other -- at their annual summer reunion. As the rest of the group gathers around the campfire to catch up, Taylor and Alex find themselves alone on the beach and forced to confront the growing gulf between them. Despite rekindling their spark, they still question whether some friendships, like falling stars, burn brightest just before they fade from view.
Torn between hanging on and letting go, Taylor and Alex discover that adulthood brings both the freedom and burden of choice. And they wonder if perhaps the greatest freedom of all is the freedom from choosing amid the vastness of the ununknowable and the unknown. What ilies beyond their control leaves them free to observe and marvel at the unfolding, made real simply by their experiencing of it.
At turns delicate and raw, Light the Stars offers a poignant and nuanced glipse into an intimate moment between two friends deeply bonded yet still drifting, unable to gage the distance between them and unsure as to how to bridge the gap.
