2026Nominee
Best Director
At the Place of Ghosts
Bretten Hannam
Director · Producer · Writer
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2022Nominee
Best Picture
Wildhood
2015Nominee
Best Director
North Mountain
Career Highlights
2011Highlight
Best Director
Deep End
2014Highlight
Best Picture
I Am Syd Stone
Video
At the Place of Ghosts
Wildhood
North Mountain