Zoe Leigh Hopkins
História
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
Em 1734, padre jesuíta sai da Europa em direção ao novo mundo para catequizar índios de inóspita região canadense. Seu austero hábito negro e a celebração dos ritos cristãos são mal compreendidos pelos selvagens, que passam a vê-lo como uma entidade do Mal, abandonando-o à sua própria sorte.
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.
