Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Directing

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

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

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Run Woman Run poster
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

Kayak to Klemtu poster
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

The Embargo Project poster
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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

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

The Garden

2009

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

The Garden

2009