Tooth and Nail Pictures
Eva Grant
Eva is a bilingual filmmaker and dreamer of protopian futures, operating at the intersection of queer and BIPOC storytelling. With dynamic bouts in philosophy, literature, art, and performance, Eva’s work is influenced by fantasy, technology, mythology, death, love, and her Indigenous-Eurasian heritage. She studied literature and philosophy at Stanford University, where she was a Cardinal Studios filmmaking fellow and a member of the Interdepartmental Honors in the Arts cohort. After graduating, Eva gigged in Sundance’s feature development program while co-writing and co-producing the CBC Radio adaptation of the acclaimed Indigenous graphic novel, This Place: 150 Years Retold.
My Story
With support from the Canadian Media Producers Association, Eva went on to apprentice at Eagle Vision on various projects, writing for Snapchat, the History Channel, and more. She was the associate producer on the Madison Thomas-directed biopic Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry it on, which premiered at TIFF 2022, and a writer for True Story, a documentary special examining the historical relationship between Indigenous people and settlers, which premiered on the History Channel on Truth and Reconciliation Day, September 30, 2022.
She founded Tooth & Nail Pictures after being named a BANFF Spark Fellow, and pitched at the first-ever Indigenous Screen Summit which kicked off the Banff World Media Festival 2022. An avid writer, Eva’s most recent projects have been supported by ImagineNATIVE, BIPOC TV and Film, the Indigenous Screen Office, Women in Film and TV, the Whistler Film Festival, the Shine Network, New Constellations, and URBAN x INDIGENOUS.
She is the writer/director/creator of Degrees of Separation (a series developed in partnership with Fae Pictures), which won the Transmedia Zone's Power Pitch Competition and was awarded development funding from the Independent Production Fund and Canadian Media Fund. She shot her proof-of-concept in Toronto in August 2022, with Archipelago Productions. This year she was also named a ReelWorld Emerging 20 and workshopped her first feature screenplay, Entity, a science fiction narrative dedicated to her Nation’s lost Indigenous children. She has pitched Entity at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival’s Horror Development Lab.
Eva is now in pre-production for her TELUS STORYHIVE short film, Minus-1, which is an ImagineNATIVE Short Film Screenwriting Fellowship project, and just wrapped a 5-episode directing block in Northern Ontario for Couleurs du Nord, a highly-acclaimed 3-camera Francophone children’s show now in its second season. She is an Art Gallery of Ontario RBC Artist in Residency, developing an art film entitled Faking It, which explores humour and synesthesia in the context of artificial intelligence. Eva is a Vancouver Queer Film Festival Programming Disruptor Fellow, and the host of the CBC docuseries pilot Dark Arts, profiling experimental artists in Victoria, BC. With support from Hawaii Entertainment Media's 360 VR Workshop and the Vancouver Island South Film and Media Commission, Eva hopes to develop immersive content with her creative partner, the multi-hyphenate artist Coyote Park, who dreams of just and capacious futures for Indigenous and Trans people.
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