Eva Grant
Director | Writer
Eva Grant is an Indigenous and Eurasian filmmaker operating at the intersection of queer and BIPOC storytelling. She is an enrolled member of the St'át'imc First Nation, and is also of mixed South and West Asian, and European ancestry.
She studied literature and philosophy at Stanford University, where she was a Cardinal Studios filmmaking fellow, a Stanford in Hollywood participant, a production intern for the documentary film ATTLA (streamed on PBS in 2019), and a board member of the theatre group for women and non-binary folks known as Wit. After graduating, Eva gigged in Sundance’s feature development program while co-writing and co-producing the CBC Radio adaptation of the acclaimed Indigenous graphic novel, This Place: 150 Years Retold.
With support from the Canadian Media Producers Association, Eva went on to apprentice at Eagle Vision on various projects, writing for Snapchat, the History Channel, and more. She was the associate producer on the Madison Thomas-directed biopic Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry it on, which premiered at TIFF 2022, and a writer for True Story, a documentary special examining the historical relationship between Indigenous people and settlers, which premiered on the History Channel on Truth and Reconciliation day, September 30, 2022.
She founded Tooth & Nail Pictures after being named a BANFF Spark Fellow, and pitched at the first-ever Indigenous Screen Summit which kicked off BANFF 2022.
An avid writer, Eva’s most recent projects have been supported by BIPOC TV and Film, the Indigenous Screen Office, Women in Film and TV, the Whistler Film Festival, the Shine Network, New Constellations, and URBAN x INDIGENOUS.
She is the writer/director/creator of Degrees of Separation (a series developed in partnership with Fae Pictures), which won the Transmedia Zone's Power Pitch Competition and was awarded development funding from the Independent Production Fund and Canadian Media Fund. She shot her proof-of-concept in Toronto in August 2022, with Archipelago Productions. This year she was also named a ReelWorld Emerging 20 and workshopped her first feature screenplay, Entity, a science fiction narrative dedicated to her Nation’s lost Indigenous children.
With funding from TELUS STORYHIVE and the Indigenous Screen Office, Eva is developing a short film fictionalizing her experiences as a Land Defender and Water Protector in BC.
