Tooth and Nail Pictures
An Indigenous Woman-Owned and Operated Film Production Company
Tooth & Nail Pictures operates at the intersection of queer and BIPOC storytelling to champion narratives that are viciously optimistic, decolonial, and otherworldly.
We are headquartered on reserve on the ancestral and unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ peoples, and operate nationally out of Victoria, BC, Canada.
Tooth & Nail was one of 100 companies selected for the 2022 Banff Spark Accelerator and has collaborated with companies such as Archipelago Productions, Lopii Productions, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. We are in development on projects supported by the Canada Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office, TELUS STORYHIVE, Creative BC, and the Blood in the Snow Film Festival's Horror Development Lab.
Our Team
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 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 | 11 Min | Historical Drama
Nancy Columbia Eneutseak was a Nunatsiavut Indigenous woman born in 1893 in a human zoo at the Chicago World’s Fair. At the age of 18 she wrote and starred in a short film entitled The Way of the Eskimo, of which no known copies remain. Nancy remains one of the youngest filmmakers of all time, and the first Indigenous person to make an Indigenous-centred film. This period piece re-imagines Nancy seeing her film screen for the first time.
Produced with support from ImagineNATIVE Original Shorts and the Vancouver Film Studios
Nancy will premiere at the ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in June 2025
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 and Hunter Grant
Pre-Production
On an abandoned spaceship carrying life to a faraway planet, an infertile Scientist embarks on an experiment of hope and love for her future descendants, implanting her embryos within the plant systems whose genetic material is stowed on board.
Funded by Creative BC, the First Peoples’ Cultural Council and the Canada Council for the Arts
Exhibition coming early 2026
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
Exhibition coming in 2025
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.
Screened as part of the One-Take Super 8 film festival in October 2023
In Distribution
Experimental Short | 5 Min
Shot on Super8, this multi-media project features a single character transforming into 4 comedic archetypes randomly generated from over 150 terms derived from genre film, fashion, queer camp, web culture, and pop psychology.
Mechanism explores the ways in which laughter can be divorced from humour, particularly for those for whom laughter is both the only escape and the damning symptom of hysteria, malaise, and malevolence.
A multi-media immersive version of this work was advance-screened in Victoria, BC on July 30 and August 6, 2023
Screened at Darkroom Festival and Rendezvous with Madness in 2024
Written and Directed by Eva Grant
Created through the Art Gallery of Ontario's RBC x AGO Emerging Artist-in-Residence program
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.
Exhibited as part of the One-Take Super 8 screening in Victoria, BC in October 2024.
Written and Directed by Eva 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 and Directed by Eva Grant
Pre-Production
Short-Form Series | 6 X 5 Min | Genre / 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
Supported by the Indigenous Screen Office, the Sundance Institute, and the Banff/Netflix Diversity of Voices program.
All Videos
All Videos
Forest Echoes Trailer
Mechanism
How to Summon a Demon
