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 LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən-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 creator, filmmaker, digital designer, curator, writer, and public speaker. Eva's groundbreaking art pieces have been featured across Canada as well as Internationally, and include film, interactive installations and immersive media.
​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.
FEATURED PROJECTS
NANCY
Historical Narrative | 12 Min
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.​
