Get your first look at the poster for Endless Cookie ahead of its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs next week. POV has the exclusive premiere of the poster for animated feature doc by Seth Scriver and Pete Scriver.
The hilarious film sees the half-brothers—one white, one Indigenous—team up as the former gathers the latter’s stories for a film. The Toronto-based Seth jets up to Shamattawa where Pete regales him with all sorts of rambling yarns about his history, family, and community. Throughout the audio interviews, though, neighbours, dogs, and children interrupt the stories and inspire Pete to explore rabbit holes and tangents, in part accounting for the documentary’s eight year production. Meanwhile, Seth, who previously directed the award winning animated feature Asphalt Watches, imaginatively conjures visual elements to complement and accentuate Pete’s knack for storytelling. Simply put: you’ve never seen anything quite like Endless Cookie.
Prior to the film’s Hot Docs debut, Endless Cookie premiered at Sundance in the World Cinema Documentary Competition where POV wrote, “The sheer randomness of Endless Cookie, however, amounts to a wonderful design. This film illustrates the pleasure to be found in nostalgia and the importance of passing down stories by generations.”
We also chatted with Seth and Pete about sharing their eclectic tales with the world. “[W]e love these stories and we’re stoked that other people do too,” said Seth. “You want to make fun of yourself first, so no one else makes fun of you first. It’s better to do it that way, right?
