{"id":10256,"date":"2025-11-24T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=10256"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:15:06","slug":"seth-scriver-and-peter-scriver-endless-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2025\/11\/24\/seth-scriver-and-peter-scriver-endless-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver: Endless Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver Endless Cookie<\/em> 2024. Courtesy of Magnify Films.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Winner of the Contrechamp Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Seth and Peter Scriver\u2019s freewheeling animated documentary follows Peter\u2014an artist and storyteller from the Shamattawa First Nation\u2014through 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\u2019s chaotic adventures\u2014woven together with accounts of police profiling, land grabs, and the haunting legacy of residential schools. Peter\u2019s storytelling is mirrored in the film\u2019s loose, surreal cartooning, where wry humor sharpens into satire to evoke the long shadow of life under Canada\u2019s 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.

<\/em>2025, Canada
Format: Digital
In English and Cree
97 minutes followed by discussion

<\/em>ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Seth Scriver<\/strong>\u00a0is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work\u2014across animation, comics, sculpture, and drawing\u2014examines 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,\u00a0Asphalt Watches<\/em>\u00a0(2013), co-directed with Shayne Ehman, won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. His second feature,\u00a0Endless Cookie<\/em>\u00a0(2025), co-directed with Peter Scriver, won the Contrechamp Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.\u00a0Scriver\u2019s work has also been exhibited at YYZ Artists\u2019 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\u00a0Stooge Pile<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Flexible Tube with Stink Lines.

<\/em>Peter (Pete) Scriver<\/strong>\u00a0is a storyteller, carver, and writer based in the Shamattawa First Nation, Manitoba. His film\u00a0Endless Cookie<\/em>\u00a0(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

<\/strong>Conversations at the Edge events have live captions (CART). The Gene Siskel Film Center is fully ADA accessible and its theaters are equipped with hearing loops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winner of the Contrechamp Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Seth and Peter Scriver\u2019s freewheeling animated documentary follows Peter\u2014an artist and storyteller from the Shamattawa First Nation\u2014through 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 […]<\/p>\n

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