Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Tsi tkahéhtayen

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Owennatekha, Onekiyohstha

A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.

The Embargo Project

Caroline Monnet, Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Clint Andrew, Marie Brassard

Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.

Little Bird

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

As part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop, Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montréal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them.

Button Blanket

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West Coast Heiltsuk Nation.

Black Robe

Bruce Beresford

Lothaire Bluteau, Sandrine Holt

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.

Run Woman Run

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Dakota Ray Hebert, Sladen Peltier

Beck, a single mom, lives in Six Nations, Canada. After her mother’s death, she abandons her dream of becoming a Mohawk language teach- er, and an unhealthy lifestyle leads to a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. The ghost of Tom Longboat, a sports legend of the early 1900s, appears to her. He teaches Beck to become an honor runner, dedicating each run to an aspect of creation or a special person in her life. With Tom’s help, Beck is able to turn her life around.

Kayak to Klemtu

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Ta'kaiya Blaney, Sonja Bennett

14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters.