Tooth and Nail Pictures
An Indigenous Female-Led Media Production Company
Tooth & Nail Pictures is an Indigenous, female-led multi-media production company founded by Eva Grant. Eva is an Indigenous-Eurasian artist, filmmaker, digital designer, curator, writer, public speaker and educator, whose groundbreaking, interdisciplinary works have been featured across Canada, the US and internationally. As Tooth & Nail's Creative and Technical Lead, Eva oversees the day-to-day operations of the organization, guiding its artistic vision, cultural values, and technological direction.
Based on the Tsawout Reserve Lands which form part of the the Ancestral and Unceded Territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking and WSÁNEĆ Peoples of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Tooth & Nail Pictures integrates traditional and innovative value systems whose methodologies are informed by sustainability, reciprocity, and inclusivity. Tooth & Nail’s cutting-edge works transform conventional storytelling into a participatory, experiential journey that is relational, revelatory, and otherworldly.
Tooth & Nail Pictures is at the vanguard of Indigital creatives revolutionizing the field of immersive-interactive media, experimental film, and audio-visual technology. Combining the worlds of narration, curation, exhibition, history, ecology, philosophy, and social justice. Our work draws from Indigenous knowledge systems, speculative fiction, climate science, disability justice, and emerging technologies to imagine more just, resilient, and expansive futures. We collaborate with artists, researchers, institutions, community organizations, and technologists to create projects that move fluidly between museums, galleries, festivals, public space, broadcast media, and digital and emerging platforms.
Tooth & Nail Pictures operates a full slate of projects in all stages of development, crossing multiple genres and formats, including short-form, animated and feature length film; large-scale installation art; digital-interactive, virtual, and immersive media; podcasts; stage plays, music composition, and production services. The Team is also actively designing and protocols for industry-leading, culturally-informed protocols, legal frameworks, and production standards relating to data sovereignty and collectively-held Indigenous cultural property when engaging Indigenous artists, technologists, and communities.
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 Team
Current Projects
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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
Post-Production
Narrative Short | 10 Min | Historical Drama
Nancy tells the incredible true story of Nancy Columbia Eneutseak Palmer, a Nunatsiavut Indigenous woman from Labrador. She was born in 1893 in a human zoo at the Chicago World’s Fair. as part of an "ethnographic exhibit". known as The Eskimo Village. Nancy became its star attraction when news broke that her mother had given birth inside a fake igloo on the fairgrounds. Nancy's name was bestowed not by traditional Inuit naming ceremony but by public spectacle. Yes she embraced all of it, her strong sense of identity and connection to a home she'd never known fuelling a childhood in show business, which she pursued her entire adult life.
Against all odds, in an industry designed to devour women, children, and people of colour, she broke through every barrier. At just 18 she wrote and starred in a silent film entitled The Way of the Eskimo, of which sadly no known copies exist. Nevertheless, Nancy remains one of the first and youngest filmmakers of all time, one of the first-ever women in film, and the first Indigenous screenwriter to produce a film of any kind, let alone an Indigenous-centred one.
This period piece re-imagines Nancy seeing her film on screen for the first time.. Alone in the theatre, she manages a private showing just ahead of the premiere.. Before the crowds arrive, before the stares and the gaze, she turn her lens towards images she had created in her mind's eye alone. And then we watch her see herself and her home for the first time. And we realize that Nancy has always known who she was and where she came from. A memory carved in ice and stone, a feeling forged by distance.. Remembrance unsevered is resistance survived, a lineage revived, her future arrived.
Starring Olivia Kate Iatridis
Written & Directed by Eva Grant
Produced by Yasmeen Grant
With support from:
ImagineNATIVE Original Shorts
Vancouver Film Studios
The National Film Board of Canadsa
In Production
On an abandoned spaceship carrying life to a faraway planet, an Indigenous Futurist embarks on an experiment of hope and love for her unborn descendants, implanting her embryos within the plant systems whose genetic material is stowed on board.
Developed with the participation of Creative BC and the British Columbia Arts Council
In Development
Limited Series| 6 x 5 min | Drama
Across generations and dimensions, an Indigenous woman and a time-warping trickster enter into a wager over the soul of civilization. Will memory and lineage endure, or will history be swallowed by the march of progress?
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Written by Eva Grant and Yasmeen Grant
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 & Deadly Exposure.
Written by Eva Grant and Hunter Grant
Directed & Lensed by Eva Grant and Hunter Grant
Story Editor: Yasmeen Grant
Completed
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
Creative Direction & Design by Eva Grant
Photography by Eva Grant & Nicole Bennett
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
Analog Short | 3 Min
A Test Subject is taken into a Deprogramming Chamber for baseline analysis and re-education, using images from the Subject’s past.
Written, Lensed, and Scored by Eva Grant
Directed by Eva Grant and Hunter Grant
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 by Eva Grant and Yasmeen Grant
Directed by Eva Grant
Completed
Proof of Concept | Satire
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
Supported by the Indigenous Screen Office, the Sundance Institute, Canada Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, and the Banff/Netflix Diversity of Voices program.
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Forest Echoes Trailer
How to Summon a Demon
