Victoria Anderson-Gardner is a two-spirited award-winning Anishinaabe screenwriter, director and producer from Migisi Sahgaigan First Nation, Ontario. They are currently a 2025 Indigenous Cinema Alliance Fellow and will be attending the 2025 European Film Market in Berlin, Germany as a part of the EFM Fiction Toolbox Programme with their film “The Hole in the Sky”. They were a resident in the 2024 Norman Jewison Film Program - Writers Lab. Before becoming a resident they completed a three-month long Indigenous Youth Program in New Zealand. They graduated from the Toronto Metropolitan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Film Studies. Victoria is now focused on creating within the science fiction, horror and thriller genres, bringing in their unique perspective as an Anishinaabe person who grew up traditionally in a remote First Nation community. Victoria was awarded the Glenn Gould Protegé Prize for their work from Glenn Gould laureate Alanis Obomsawin.
Victoria is most well-known for OSHKI-AYA’AA which won the Vox Popular Media Arts Festival Audience Choice Award; BRAIDED TOGETHER which won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival; NAMID which was commissioned by REEL Canada and Netflix and won the Vox Popular Media Arts Festival Audience Choice Award; BECOMING NAKUSET which is a CBC Gem and Loud Roar Production that won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival and the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival; and THE HURT THAT BINDS US which won Best Documentary, the HSBC Canada Filmmaker Award for Best Director, and the Natalie McDonald Memorial Award for Best Director at the TMU Film Festival.
They are currently in development for their first feature film THE HOLE IN THE SKY and limited series BAD MEDICINE. They also sit on the board of directors for the imagineNATIVE Institute and Film Festival and train to run marathons in their spare time.