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 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 Ancestral and Unceded Territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking and WSÁNEĆ Peoples of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Tooth & Nail Pictures integrates traditional and innovative frameworks whose values and methodologies are informed by sustainability, reciprocity, and inclusivity. Tooth & Nail’s cutting-edge works transform conventional storytelling into a participatory, embodied, experiential journey that is relational, revelatory, and otherworldly.
Tooth & Nail is at the vanguard of Indigital creatives revolutionizing immersive-interactive film and media. Combining narration, curation, history, ecology, philosophy, and social justice, our work draws from Indigenous knowledge, speculative fiction, climate science, disability justice, and emerging technologies to imagine 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 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.
Weaving tradition and technology into
emergent art forms informed by relational storytelling, embodied experience, and and sovereign expression
The more we tell the story, the more the story tells us, and the more the story is told, the more telling he story
Meet Our Team
Pre-Production
LIGHT THE STARS
Narrative Short | 12min
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.
Written & Directed by
Hunter Grant
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NANCY TRAILER
Forest Echoes Trailer
How to Summon a Demon
WELCOME TO THE
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STARSEED, ARCHIVE, VAULT
WORLD BUILDER - TIME BENDER
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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 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.
Click below to access the Ship's Manifest:, peruse the Captain's Logs, and explore the many features thiis Vessel has to offer.
Developed with the support of Creative BC and the British Columbia Arts Council. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
In Development
Short-Form Series 6 x 5 min
speculative Historical Fiction
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?
Written by Eva Grant and Yasmeen Grant
Story Editor: Hunter 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.
View the entire collection online at our Virtual Gallery
Creative Direction & Design by Eva Grant
Photography by Eva Grant & Nicole Bennett
Story Consultant: Yasmeen Grant
Funded by the BC Arts Council
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 4m20s
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.
