Eva Grant

​​Eva is a multi-lingual writer, director, audio-visual editor, digital designer, public speaker and educator. Her work spans multiple genres including narrative, documentary, and analogue film; virtual and experimental media; photography and photojournalism; graphic art and animation; musical composition and sound design; radio and podcasting; as well as large-scale immersive-interactive art installations. Combining cutting-edge technologies with time-honoured customs, she unifies contrasting narratives through immersive visuals and layered soundscapes that bypass the observer mind and lodge in the body, creating a common container of “felt” experience that is personally and universally relatable.

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Eva's interdisciplinary approach to artmaking reflects her cultural heritage and incorporates science, philosophy, history, and human rights. She is a trained Legal Observer certified by the National Lawyer's Guild to document and de-escalate conflict between police and demonstrators. In that capacity she has been present at several large-scale civil rights, climate justice, and human rights rallies in Canada and across the US, including Border Wall, the Muslim Travel Ban, Migrant Workers’ Movement, Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, Fairy Creek, and Indigenous Youth Idle No More. 

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An alumna of the Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts, the Sundance Institute’s Native Lab, Canada Media Producers Association Mentorship Program, the BIPOC TV & Film Episodic Lab, the New Suns Worldbuilding Lab, and the TIFF Netflix Diversity of Voices Program, her projects have garnered several awards and accolades. 

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Eva’s narrative short film, Forest Echoes, has screened at more than 20 film festivals worldwide, and won the 2025 Tall Grass Festival award for outstanding sound design. Centering two Indigenous environmental activists following their arrest on the front lines, the film is based on her experiences as a Legal Observer and Land Defender, and accompanies her to speaking engagements on Aboriginal Youth Justice, where it serves as an educational resource for Indigenous local government, community support networks, law enforcement, social workers, and advocacy groups.

 

More recently, A Radical Act of Hope, a podcast series she wrote on Inuk human rights advocate Siila Watt-Cloutier, one of the world’s leading voices on climate change, won three Canadian broadcast awards and has been nominated for several others. And for her 3D series entitled Exquisite Machines, Eva was named as Canada’s 2025 Emerging Digital Artist of the Year. A commentary on the commodification of women’s reproductive architecture, her series featured as part of Caldera, a virtual gallery curated by the MacKenzie Art Gallery of Regina, and was exhibited live at Gallery TPW (Toronto) and Art Windsor Essex.

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Over the last year, Eva’s extensive repertoire of digital art has been selected for exhibition at numerous galleries and events Canada-wide including Baseline Emergence, an interactive consciousness-modulation assessment exhibited by ArtEngine (Ottawa); Coherence Ceremony, an immersive homage to the Indigenous Salmon Peoples of the Pacific Northwest, selected as part of imagineNATIVE Media Arts Festival's 2026 Immersive Showcase; No Dominion / No Domain, a 2D digital graphic and print series that re-imagines traditional dwellings built into modern urban environments, curated by the Mayworks Gallery, the Khyber Institute, and Nocturne (Halifax); Eurasia, an online ethnographic photographic series that re-imagine the migratory patterns of the diasporic peoples of Asia Minor; and Ectopia, a digital-interactive immersive, art installation exploring evolution, techno-futurism, and trans-planetary Indigeneity, that exhibited in Victoria, BC.

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Eva’s films have screened at multiple film festivals around the world. Recent credits include Nancy, a short-form historical fiction based on a Nunsatsiavut woman born in a human zoo at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, who at the age of 18 became the world’s first Indigenous filmmaker when she wrote and starred in the silent film The Way of the Eskimo; and Mirth Control, an experimental short exploring women’s forced performance of social laughter as a tool for patriarchal compliance. 

 

Other film credits include associate producer of CBC’s radio adaption of the acclaimed graphic novel anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold; associate producer of Madison Thomas’ Emmy-winning documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On; a 5-episode directing block on TFO/Lopii Productions’ series Couleurs du Nord; writer for the Snapchat Series Reclaim(ed) and the History Channel’s True Story; and executive producer of Becca Kozak’s Sugar Rot.

 

As a curator and educator, Eva was programmer for the 2023 Vancouver Queer Film Festival, as well as the 2024 and 2025 editions of the Pacific Rim Short Film Festival. She also served as guest curator for the Pique Festival and for the Indigenous Curatorial Collective’s The Land Wants You Back, and was a lecturer at the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival’s Greaves Filmmaking Transdisciplinary Seminar.
 

Eva is currently in pre-production on a short-form series funded by the Indigenous Screen Office, and is attached to direct and edit a short film commissioned by Vancouver Film Studios, set to lens in late 2026. She is also scripting her first feature screenplay, Entity, a supernatural love letter to this nation’s lost Indigenous children.