Tooth and Nail Pictures
Yasmeen Grant
Yasmeen Grant is a lawyer and producer for Tooth & Nail Pictures. She is a first-generation Canadian of South and West Asian and European descent.
She is a distinguished graduate of the United World College of Southeast Asia, McGill University, and the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law, whence she received her J.D. in 1995. It was here she met her husband, Rex, also a law student, and an Interior Salish Status Indian.
My Story
Yasmeen is fluent in five languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese) and has worked as a cultural liaison, translator, advocate and interpreter for Indigenous groups seeking to protect traditional knowledge and ecosystems worldwide. This work produced a documentary for CBC Radio Ideas, entitled In Search of the Divine Vegetal, which focused on plant medicines of the Amazon and Andes, and for which Yasmeen conducted and translated dozens of interviews with tribal elders and healers from across South America.
Yasmeen’s experience and skills have dovetailed with successes in law, local politics, fiscal responsibility, economic development, sustainable growth, ethical investment, project management, and now media production. She has always had an interest in media not only as an art form, but as a way to educate and uplift.
Yasmeen is currently producing projects supported by TELUS STORYHIVE, Creative BC, the Indigenous Screen Office, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, the Independent Production Fund, the Canada Media Fund, and the CBC.
In addition to producing a roster of genre-defying projects in narrative, factual, and experimental media, Yasmeen is hard at work developing the legal and ethical backbone of Tooth & Nail Pictures by designing industry templates and contracts which honour Indigenous protocols and ancestral teachings in the spirit of collaborative co-creation.
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.
250-818-5977