Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Historia
Zoe Leigh Hopkins is a Canadian Heiltsuk/Mohawk writer and film director who started her career in acting in 2009 and later pursued filmmaking.
Director
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.
Thanks
The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.
Director
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.
Director
Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Executive Producer
A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.
Writer
A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.
Director
A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.
Additional Cast
The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.
Member of the Algonquin Tribe
A mediados del siglo XVII, un sacerdote jesuita francés, el padre Laforque, emprende un peligroso viaje hacia lo que luego sería conocido como el norte de Canadá, y que en esa época era una tierra salvaje dominada por los indios hurones e iroqueses. Junto a un joven local que será su intérprete, Laforque aprenderá algo sobre aquellos a quienes pretende evangelizar, poseedores de sus propios valores espirituales, y también aprenderá algo sobre esa fe interna que él veía como algo inconmovible
Writer
A Mohawk man starts a midnight running club to honor the life of a friend he lost to suicide. Together with his buddies, Grant carries on his departed friends love of... streaking all over the reserve.
Director
A Mohawk man starts a midnight running club to honor the life of a friend he lost to suicide. Together with his buddies, Grant carries on his departed friends love of... streaking all over the reserve.
