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.
OUR VISION
By learning, teaching, and incorporating cutting-edge technologies into our artistic practice, our goal is to build capacity in and increase public accessibility to digital tools. Hoping to expand the field of multi-nodal creative expression, we refashion contemporary frameworks to align with traditional approaches to art and innovation. Reflecting principles of sustainability, continuity, and pluraliity, we strive to transform conventional art forms and subvert expectations to create works that inspire reflection and connection. Our goal is to curate participatory-yet-personal multi-sensory, experiential journeys that are relational, revelatory, and otherworldly.
We are developing culturally-informed legal, and ethical protocols relating to Indigenous autonomy, land use, resource management, data sovereignty, and collectively-held property right, both in media production and within the greater society.
OUR TEAM
As Tooth & Nail's Creative and Technical Lead, Eva guides the artistic vision and technological direction of the organization. Helming a fully-independent production company that performs all work in-house, her experience in writing, directing, cinematography, video editing, sound engineering, programming, and mentoring is invaluable to the Team. Eva is joined in collaboration by fellow filmmakers Yasmeen Grant, a lawyer, creative producer, editor, and writer, as well as by Hunter Grant, a scriptwriter, director, story editor, and production manager.
OUR WORK
We have a full slate of projects in all stages of production. Crossing multiple genres and formats, our projects include historical, narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated short-form films, series, and features. We have also lead and curated a number of large-scale installation, digital-interactive, and immersive media exhibitions. Other areas include radio-podcasting, public speaking, music composition and production, photography, and game-based virtual design.
Post-Production
NANCY
Short-Form Historical Fiction
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.
Post-Production
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.
Current Projects
Browse our wide array of projects in various stages of development
In Distribution
Narrative Short | 20 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
Produced by Yasmeen Grant with support from TELUS STORYHIVE, Creative BC, Sundance Institute, Re:Focus Fund and imagineNATIVE
Filmed on location on Vancouver Island, BC
September 30 - October 5, 2023
In Development
Narrative Feature | 100 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.
Supported by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, with additional support from the Rogers Indigenous Film
Fund, the ReelWorld Screen Institute, the Indigenous Screen Office, and the Blood in the Snow Film Festival
Written by Eva Grant and Hunter Grant
Directed & Lensed by Eva Grant and Hunter Grant
Story Editor: Yasmeen Grant
In Distribution
Analog 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.
Written, Directed & Scored by Eva Grant
Production Design by Yasmeen Grant
Screened as part of the One-Take Super 8 film festival in October 2023
Completed
Proof of Concept | Satire
4 Min 20 Sec
In this smart and stylish genre satire, an Indigenous PhD plots to return stolen Ancestral artifacts to her Tribe. But first she 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
Associate Producer: Yasmeen Grant
Story Coordinator Hunter grant
Supported by the Indigenous Screen Office, the Sundance Institute, Canada Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, and the Banff/Netflix Diversity of Voices program.
