Endless Cookie
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Winner of the Contrechamp Grand Prix, 2025 Annecy Festival
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, 2025 Hot Docs
Through a series of vignettes - some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre - this animated feature documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.
Seth Scriver
Seth Scriver is a Toronto-based director, writer and artist. His feature animation Asphalt Watches, co-created with Shayne Ehman, won Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF 2013. The film follows Seth and Shayne as they hitchhike across Canada on a wild road-trip adventure. Seth is also an accomplished visual artist, working in many mediums such as drawing, airbrush painting, comics, sculpture and animation. Seth is captivated by exploring compelling characters and real-life tales, especially those that explore activities and histories that exist on the margins of capitalist culture, through non-narrative works in Canadian comics.
Bio & photo: Métropole Films
Peter Scriver
Peter Scriver’s artist practice is foremost a story teller but he is also a self-taught carver and writer. He was born in Shamattawa First Nation in 1961 and moved to downtown Toronto at age 11. After schooling and working in the city for a few years, he moved back up to his hometown Shamattawa, where he started a family at age 30 and became known as a skilled hunter and trapper. After his third child, he was named Chief of Shamattawa First Nations. On the day he was elected, he had fallen through ice on his skidoo. Once they pulled him out, they told him that he had been voted in and needed to be sworn in immediately. He ended up doing the whole ceremony frozen shut in his snowsuit. A few years later, Peter became the Shamattawa Magistrate. After 8 years in this position, the demand of having to look after his kids and his exhaustion with the racist RCMP compelled him to resign from his position. He is currently a Canadian Ranger and maintenance worker at the nursing station in Shamattawa and the father of 9 brilliant but rambunctious kids.
Bio & photo: Métropole Films
