Are you ready for Endless Cookie, the most Canadian? comedy of recent years? It’s a documentary about half-siblings sharing stories, living in a house with a dozen dogs, building a sweat lodge in the backyard, eating caribou candy, enduring ludicrous RCMP raids, shuttling from Shamattawa, Manitoba to Toronto, opening portals to other worlds… But it’s mostly about interruptions, digressions, diversions, and those days when you could order up pizza for free. Also it’s animated, but you probably already noticed that.
Intro by DIY curator, Sook-Yin Lee
Seth Scriver is my next door neighbour in Kensington Market. He is a part of my extended family, and I’m an ’Aunty’ to his kids. Seth was working on the animated documentary Endless Cookie for the better part of a decade, the same period of time when I was working on Paying for It. Living nearby, I could hear him on the other side of the wall, drawing and listening to music. Seth contributed art to my movie, and I voiced one of his characters – a public radio host. (Go figure!) Our films are both personal and community-based. Seth and his half-brother Peter have the gift of the gab and they’re consummate storytellers. Endless Cookie revolves around their family in Toronto and the Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba. It’s a wonderfully surreal and heartrending film.
Sook-Yin Lee, DIY: Making Movies curator
Seth Scriver & Peter Scriver
Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver, Kristin “Cookie” Scriver, Dezray “Dez” Scriver, Ada Scriver, Simone “Simmy” Scriver
Canada
2025
English
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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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Endless Cookie
Are you ready for the most Canadian comedy of recent years? It's a documentary about half-siblings sharing stories, but it's mostly about interruptions, digressions, diversions, and free pizza. It's also animated, but you probably already noticed that.