Rez Film Club: Endless Cookie

Rez Film Club is presented by the Native Circle Advisory Board at Circle Cinema and proudly sponsored by the Flint Family Foundation and Cherokee Film.

All admission to Rez Film Club events are FREE and open to the public, plus one FREE small popcorn for each person! Seating is first come, first served.

This month, Rez Film Club presents Endless Cookie, an original animated documentary from directors Seth and Pete Scriver. Two half-brothers, one Indigenous and one white, embark on a journey through time and place. They travel from their remote home in Shamattawa to the vibrant urban landscape of the 1980s.

As an extra bonus, Seth and Pete will join for a Q&A over zoom after the screening!

About the film: 1h37min - Documentary, Animation, Comedy - Not Rated - English

Nominated for Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and nominated for Best Documentary at the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Endless Cookie is a new full-length animation from Seth & Pete Scriver though to be fair, they have been painstakingly assembling it for the last 8 years.

The film plays out like a particularly tangential fever dream-a colourful depiction of the many overlapping episodes of the brothers' lives-from their upbringing in Downtown Toronto’s Kensington Market to Pete's current residence in an isolated Northern Manitoba First Nation community.

As they reminisce, their yarns are often punctuated, interrupted or else hijacked by the charismatic members of their family who indulge in their own reveries. Endless Cookie is at heart an impressionistic and often surreal depiction of family but it is also a documentary of the creative process.

About the directors:
SETH SCRIVER (Writer, Director, Producer, Key Animator):

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.

PETE SCRIVER (Writer, Director):

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.