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Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

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Biography

Zoe Leigh Hopkins is a Canadian Heiltsuk/Mohawk writer and film director who started her career in acting in 2009 and later pursued filmmaking.

Known For

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
7.1

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

2024
North of North
6.9

A young Inuk woman wants to build a new future for herself after a spontaneous and extremely public exit from her marriage. It won't be easy in a small Arctic town where everybody knows your business.

North of North

2025
Black Robe
6.5

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.

Black Robe

1991
Trickster
7.2

An Indigenous teen struggles to support his dysfunctional family as myth, magic, and monsters slowly infiltrate his life.

Trickster

2020
Don't Even
7.0

Follow two best friends in late '90s Winnipeg as they face uncertain futures after high school.

Don't Even

2024
Kayak to Klemtu
5.3

14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters.

Kayak to Klemtu

2018
Run Woman Run
7.0

Beck, a single mom, lives in Six Nations, Canada. After her mother’s death, she abandons her dream of becoming a Mohawk language teach- er, and an unhealthy lifestyle leads to a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. The ghost of Tom Longboat, a sports legend of the early 1900s, appears to her. He teaches Beck to become an honor runner, dedicating each run to an aspect of creation or a special person in her life. With Tom’s help, Beck is able to turn her life around.

Run Woman Run

2021
Little Chief
8.5

The lives of a Native woman and a troubled young boy intersect over the course of a school day on a reservation in Oklahoma.

Little Chief

2020
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This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West Coast Heiltsuk Nation.

Button Blanket

2009
The Garden
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A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.

The Garden

2009
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A broken-hearted woman moves home to rebuild her life and give her young son roots through language and family.

Skyworld

2014
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10.0

A Mohawk man starts a midnight running club to honor the life of a friend he lost to suicide. Together with his buddies, Grant carries on his departed friends love of... streaking all over the reserve.

Mohawk Midnight Runners

The Embargo Project
N/A

Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.

The Embargo Project

2015
Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker
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The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker

1992