The less you know about Endless Cookie beforehand, the better you will be prepared.
Seriously.
Still, you probably want to know what it’s about, even if that question is not so easy to answer and it’s ultimately besides the point? Let’s say it’s about getting caught in your own hunting trap out in subzero temperatures. And that time a snow owl took a shine to your buddy and stayed perched on his arm even as he went and bought his groceries. It’s about half siblings sharing stories, living in a house with a dozen dogs, building a sweat lodge in the backyard, eating caribou candy, ludicrous RCMP raids, shuttling from Shamattawa, Manitoba to Toronto, portals to other worlds… But mostly it’s about interruptions, digressions, diversions, and those days when you could order up pizza for free.
Also it’s animated. But you probably saw that already.
Endless Cookie may be the strangest, most seemingly nonsensical documentary in some time. But there’s one truth to a whackadoodle odyssey like this one: you will definitely have a story to tell afterwards.
Pat Mullen, POV magazine
It is a picture infused with love — both for family, and for the creative act (the film took nearly a decade to complete). It is also a generous invitation into the heart of a sprawling extended family.
Wendy Ide, Screen International
The film is as heartfelt as it is absurd and the conversations and stories are so riveting I found myself almost in trance as I watched this doc. I can’t wait to watch it again.
Mary E Gates
Seth Scriver & Peter Scriver
Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver, Kristin “Cookie” Scriver, Dezray “Dez” Scriver, Ada Scriver, Simone “Simmy” Scriver
Canada
2025
In English and Cree with English subtitles
Audience Award, Hot Docs
Indigenous & Community Access
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Credits
Executive Producer
Peter Scriver
Producer
Daniel Bekerman, Chris Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Jason Ryle, Seth Scriver
Screenwriter
Seth Scriver
ANIMATION
Seth Scriver
Editor
Sydney Cowper
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