About
Howah Productions Inc. is an Indigenous-owned, Northern Ontario production company that produces feature films, short films, and documentary productions.
Our mandate is to create Indigenous-owned productions and to assist Indigenous and BIPOC creators in bringing their films to realization. We elevate and uplift filmmakers of all levels.
Our Team
Victoria Anderson-Gardner
CEO | Producer | Director
Victoria Anderson-Gardner is a two-spirited award-winning Anishinaabe director and producer from Migisi Sahgaigan First Nation, Ontario. They are currently the Studio Coordinator for the Central Canada Studio at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) where they were previously the Coordinator for Indigenous Relations and Community Engagement. They graduated from the Toronto Metropolitan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Film Studies. Victoria is focused on creating Indigenous content, showcasing underrepresented communities and using their skills as a filmmaker to educate. Victoria was awarded the Glenn Gould Protegé Prize for their work from Glenn Gould laureate Alanis Obomsawin.
Victoria has worked on a variety of productions but is most well known for BRAIDED TOGETHER which won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival and the Vox Popular Media Arts Festival, and is now available on CBC Gem; 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 and won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival and the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival; THE HURT THAT BINDS US which was commissioned by Art With Impact; and won Best Documentary, the HSBC Canada Filmmaker Award for Best Director, and the Natalie McDonald Memorial Award for Best Director at the Ryerson University Film Festival; and MNI WICONI: MITAKUYELO which was commissioned by imagineNATIVE and Netflix.
They worked as the assistant director and story producer on Crave’s docu-series THUNDER BAY, and worked as the production coordinator and story editor on CBC, ABC and Cream
Productions’ historical docu-series STUFF THE BRITISH STOLE. They currently sit on the board of directors for imagineNATIVE and are in distribution for a short film they produced called OSHKI-AYA’AA; co-directing a short film called MY FRIEND SAABE which is in post-production; and writing their first feature film through the 2023 imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Features Lab.
