Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver: Endless Cookie

Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver, Endless Cookie, 2024. Courtesy of Magnify Films.

Join Seth and Peter Scriver for an evening with their freewheeling animated documentary Endless Cookie.

“A multi-layered wonder—part-family portrait, part-magic realist adventure, and part-unflinching critique of Canada’s long-standing…and often calculated mistreatment of Indigenous people.”—Chris Robinson, Cartoon Brew

Winner of the Contrechamp Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Seth and Peter Scriver’s freewheeling animated documentary follows Peter—an artist and storyteller from the Shamattawa First Nation—through a series of shaggy dog tales about growing up with his white half-brother Seth in 1980s Toronto, and later raising his own children in the remote north. There are chicken heists, Sasquatch sightings, trapping mishaps, and children’s chaotic adventures—woven together with accounts of police profiling, land grabs, and the haunting legacy of residential schools. Peter’s storytelling is mirrored in the film’s loose, surreal cartooning, where wry humor sharpens into satire to evoke the long shadow of life under Canada’s First Nations policies. At once personal and political, comedic and fraught, the film offers a disarmingly profound portrait of race, identity, and the complex bonds of family.

Followed by a conversation with Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver and an audience Q&A.

2024, Canada
Format: Digital
In English and Cree
97 minutes followed by discussion

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Seth Scriver is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work—across animation, comics, sculpture, and drawing—examines the absurd, the everyday, and the marginal. His award-winning films have screened at major festivals and institutions around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival (Park City), Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Doc Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Toronto), and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto), among many others. His debut feature, Asphalt Watches (2013), co-directed with Shayne Ehman, won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. His second feature, Endless Cookie (2025), co-directed with Peter Scriver, won the Contrechamp Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Scriver’s work has also been exhibited at YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto and ADA Gallery in Richmond, and he has twice been nominated for the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning for his comics Stooge Pile and Flexible Tube with Stink Lines.

Peter (Pete) Scriver is a storyteller, carver, and writer based in the Shamattawa First Nation, Manitoba. His film Endless Cookie (2025), co-directed with Peter Scriver, won the Contrechamp Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Born in Shamattawa in 1961, Peter moved to downtown Toronto at the age of 12. After several years of school and work in the city, he returned north to his home community, where he started a family and became known as a skilled hunter and trapper. He was elected chief of Shamattawa First Nation shortly after the birth of his third child. On the day of his election, he fell through the ice while riding his skidoo. Once election officials pulled him out, they informed him that he had won and needed to be sworn in immediately. He ended up doing the entire ceremony frozen shut in his snowsuit. A few years later, Pete became the Magistrate of Shamattawa First Nation. After eight years in the position, the demands of raising his children and his exhaustion with the racism of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led him to resign. He is currently a Canadian Ranger and maintenance worker at the nursing station in Shamattawa and the father of nine brilliant but rambunctious kids.

ACCESSIBILITY

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TICKETS

$13 General public
$8 Students & seniors
$6.50 Film Center members
$5 SAIC staff & faculty & AIC staff
FREE for SAIC students with a valid ID

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RESOURCE GUIDES

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