Bretten Hannam

Bretten Hannam is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.[1] They are most noted for their 2015 feature film debut North Mountain, which premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2015 before going into limited commercial release in 2018.[2]

A Two-Spirit, non binary Mi'kmaq person, Hannam was born and raised in Nova Scotia.[1] Educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Dalhousie University, they made a number of short films prior to North Mountain; the most noted of these, Deep End, premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2011[3] and was included in the short film compilation Boys on Film 9: Youth in Trouble.[4]

In 2018, they participated in Now and Then, an exhibition of works by LGBTQ artists in conjunction with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.[5] Their contribution was the short film Elmiteskuatl, an interrogation of the complex relationship between First Nations peoples and colonialist conceptions of archives and museums.[5]

Their most recent short film, Wildfire, was produced with the assistance of the Whistler Film Festival's Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship,[6] and premiered at BFI Flare in 2019. A feature film expansion of Wildfire, tentatively titled Wildhood, was funded by Telefilm Canada in June 2019.[7]

In 2020, Hannam received a grant from the Inside Out Film and Video Festival's Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund for the completion of a short documentary film titled Walqwin, about two-spirit culture in the Wabanaki Confederacy.[8]

Filmography
  • New Skin (2008)
  • Puppy (2010)
  • Deep End (2011)
  • North Mountain (2015)
  • Elmiteskuatl (2018)
  • Wildfire (2019)
  • Wildhood (TBA)

References
  1. Jordan Parker, "Two-Spirit filmmaker puts queer representation first in films". Halifax Today, June 12, 2018.
  2. Rhiannon Johnson, "Two-spirit thriller North Mountain to have theatrical premiere in Toronto". CBC News Indigenous, June 29, 2018.
  3. "Dal filmmakers take to the big screen". Dalhousie Gazette, September 6, 2011.
  4. "BOYS ON FILM 9: Youth in Trouble – DVD Review". Front Row Reviews, May 1, 2013.
  5. Peter Knegt, "What is queer identity in 2018? These artists are looking to the past to understand the present". CBC Arts, March 21, 2018.
  6. Regan Reid, "Whistler ’17: Feature Project, Doc, Screenwriter Lab finalists named". Playback, October 26, 2017.
  7. Jeremy Kay, "Telefilm Canada unveils eight indigenous filmmakers to receive backing". Screen Daily, June 27, 2019.
  8. Dino-Ray Ramos, "Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Unveils Recipients For Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund". Deadline Hollywood, July 9, 2020.
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