Endless Cookie, an animated documentary film from half-brothers Seth and Pete Scriver, will be released in theaters on December 5th by Obscured Releasing.
Through a series of vignettes — some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre — this film explores the complex bond between the two half-brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present-day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa. It is also a story of the creative process and how impossible it can be.
Endless Cookies began its festival run at the Sundance, and it went on to win the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Contrechamp Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The film plays out like a particularly tangential fever dream–a colorful 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 a remote 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.
The goal was to make something funny, beautiful, spiritual, political, complex, simple, and true.” Seth Scriver said in a statement.
Pete added, “It’s like discussions around the kitchen table with your family, going from one subject to another, so from politics to Sasquatch, to trapping, or the seasons.”
Watch the first trailer for Endless Cookie below.
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