
Biography
Bretten Hannam is a two-spirit L’nu filmmaker living in Kespukwitk, Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) where they were raised. They wrote and directed the shorts New Skin (08), Puppy (10), Deep End (11), and Elmiteskuatl (19), and the features North Mountain (15) and Wildhood (21), which played the Festival. Skɨte’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) (25) is their latest film.
Directed 8
2020s
- 2026
- 2023
Mawitai’kw
Director
- 2022
2010s
- 2019
Elmiteskuatl
Director
Wildfire
Director
- 2015
North Mountain
Director
- 2013
Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble
Director
- 2011
Deep End
Director
Wrote 7
2020s
- 2026
- 2022
2010s
- 2019
Elmiteskuatl
Writer
Wildfire
Screenplay
- 2015
North Mountain
Writer
- 2013
Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble
Writer
- 2011
Deep End
Writer
Produced 4
2020s
- 2022
2010s
- 2019
Wildfire
Co-Producer
- 2015
North Mountain
Producer
- 2014
I Am Syd Stone
Associate Producer
Edited 2
2010s
- 2013
Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble
Editor
- 2011
Deep End
Editor