Yasmeen Grant

Yasmeen is a graduate of the United World College of South East Asia, McGill University, and the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. She is fluent in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, and has worked as an advocate and interpreter for Indigenous groups seeking to protect traditional knowledge and ecosystems worldwide. In 2008 she co-produced a two-part documentary for CBC Radio Ideas, entitled In Search of the Divine Vegetal, which focused on plant medicines of the Amazon and Andes. In researching this program, Yasmeen traveled to South America on numerous occasions to conduct and translate dozens of interviews with tribal elders and healers from across the continent. 

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Yasmeen occupies a number of roles at Tooth & Nail Pictures, serving as co-lead creative, creative producter, writier, editor, storyboard artist, slate developer, production manager story editor, production designer, curator, sound designer, and collaborative partner for any and all creative ideas that cross her desk.

 

Yasmeen's recent credits include: producer and production designer for Forest Echoes, a narrative short film commissioned by TELUS Storyhive; story editor for Entity, a folk-horror feature in development with support from Creative BC and the Rogers Indigenous Film Fund; producer for Eurasia, an ethnographic photography exhibit sponsored by the BC Arts Council; and producer and production designer for Nancy, a narrative short commissioned through the imagineNATIVE Original Shorts program.

 

Yasmeen is currently producing and curating Ectopia, a digital-interactive art installation funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, and is in pre-production for Artifact, a short-form historical fiction series supported by the Indigenous Screen Office. She is also producer, production designer, and story editor on a short film commissioned by Vancouver Film Studios, set to lens in late 2026.

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In addition to producing a roster of genre-defying projects in narrative, factual, digital, and experimental media, Yasmeen is also hard at work developing the legal and ethical backbone of Tooth & Nail Pictures by innovating industry standards and precedents that honour Indigenous protocols and ancestral teachings while also creating safe, collaborative, and sustainable production practices.