Bretten Hannam

Bretten Hannam

Known for

Directing

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.

Best known work

Wildhood
Wildhood
2022
I Am Syd Stone
I Am Syd Stone
2014
Deep End
Deep End
2011
North Mountain
North Mountain
2015
At the Place of Ghosts
At the Place of Ghosts
2026
Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble
Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble
2013
Mawitai’kw
Mawitai’kw
2023
Elmiteskuatl
Elmiteskuatl
2019
Wildfire
Wildfire
2019

Filmography

  1. 2026

    At the Place of Ghosts

    Writer, Director

  2. 2023

    Mawitai’kw

    Director

  3. 2022

    Wildhood

    Producer, Director, Writer

  4. 2019

    Elmiteskuatl

    Director, Writer

  5. 2019

    Wildfire

    Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer

  6. 2015

    North Mountain

    Director, Writer, Producer

  7. 2014

    I Am Syd Stone

    Associate Producer

  8. 2013

    Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble

    Director, Writer, Editor

  9. 2011

    Deep End

    Director, Writer, Editor

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