Screening times:
Friday, October 3, 6:30 PM

Seth & Peter Scriver | Canada | 2025 | 97m

NSCAD’s Visiting Artist Program is proud to present a screening and in-person artist talkback with Seth & Peter Scriver and their film Endless Cookie in partnership with Carbon Arc Cinema. This event is possible through the generous support of NSCAD University and the Dalglish Family Foundation.

Endless Cookie is based on true stories told by Peter, a mixed race (Indigenous and white) resident of the Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba, with animations by Seth; a white Toronto-based artist, director, and half-brother to Peter through their shared white father. At the heart of the film is the relationship with each other and to the family as a whole. Wanting to engage with the complexity of that relationship by speaking about race and identity in a frank way that is both personal and political. Peter’s stories explore life in Shamattawa in its comical and fraught aspects, both within the natural landscape and the ongoing colonial project. The film documents & animates Peter's experiences as well as those of the family in Toronto.

Seth Scriver is a Toronto based director, writer and artist. His second feature-length animation Endless Cookie co-directed with his half-brother Peter Scriver premiered at Sundance 2025 and has won multiple awards including, the Grand Prix in Annecy France, The Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki festival in Greece, and the Hot Docs People Choice award. Seth’s first feature animation Asphalt Watches, co-created with Shayne Ehman, won best Canadian first feature at TIFF 2013. Seth is also an accomplished visual artist, working in many mediums.

Pete 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 nations in 1961 and at age 12 he moved to downtown Toronto. After schooling and working in the city for a few years, he moved back up to his hometown Shamattawa first nations, where at age 30 he started a family 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, Pete 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.

FREE ENTRY to NSCAD University Students (Please bring Student ID card on the night)
$12 General Admission ($11.40 cash at the door if available)