berkley brady
director, writer & producer
Berkley Brady is a Métis writer, director and producer based out of Treaty 7 territory, in Calgary, Alberta. Her creative work in film has premiered at festivals across the world, including the Berlin Binnale and Sundance. She has also directed for episodic TV and commercials, as well as music videos.
She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University in New York City, with a concentration in Directing. She has worked for Likely Story (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Foxcatcher) and Cooper’s Town (Capote).
Most recently, she directed the short films Song of the Dead and The Grey Man, which will both be featured on upcoming horror anthologies for Amazon and Creepy Pasta.
She also directed the short documentary Kohkum and the Quest, which explores the process of preparing for a vision quest, and is adapting Maria Campbell’s iconic book, Halfbreed, for the screen.
MICHAEL PETERSON
producer
Michael is an award-winning writer, director and producer who works primarily in the world of genre filmmaking. His first and second features as a director/producer/writer both played across the globe. This marks his 13th feature as a producer. Most recently he produced the award-winning feature film, Harpoon which has a Certified Fresh and 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. His films have played top festivals and have sold worldwide through a variety of distributors.
FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL presents a PETERSON POLARIS CORP and NIKA PRODUCTION film
“DARK NATURE”
with HANNAH EMILY ANDERSON MADISON WALSH ROSEANNE SUPERNAULT KYRA HARPER HELEN BELAY
casting JESSE GRIFFITHS costume design JENNIFER CRIGHTON
special effects makeup KYRA MACHPHERSON original score GHOSTKEEPER
editing DAVID HIATT production design MYRON HYRAK cinematography JARYL LIM
associate producers DAVID BOND PATRICIA GRANT-MCCULLOCH and KELLY MACDOUGALL
executive producers JASON ELLIS TIM CAIRO PATRICK EWALD KATIE PAIGE and KALANI DREIMANIS
produced by MICHAEL PETERSON written, produced and directed by BERKLEY BRADY
HANNAH EMILY
ANDERSON
MAIN CAST
Hannah Emily Anderson is an actress, writer, producer, and director. Hannah is most known for her starring role in the Award Winning Feature: What Keeps You Alive which captured critical acclaim at the SXSW Festival where it premiered.
Most recently Hannah can be seen in The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (Gate 67 Films), in which she plays a troubled Irish wife who descends into madness. Additional credits include: supporting role in the feature film, X-Men: Dark Phoenix (FOX) and the series lead in USA Network’s, The Purge (Blumhouse Productions). Anderson wrote and co-directed her first short film Come Back, in memory of Kent Nolan, co-directed her second short film entitled Five Things starring August Winter, wrote, produced, and starred in her third short, I’d Rather Be in Bed, and produced her latest short project called Maybe You Should Be Careful, which made its' world premiere at Toronto After Dark Film Festival in 2021.
MADISON WALSH
MAIN CAST
Madison Walsh is an actress and an award-winning writer/creator. She trained in theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York before moving home to Toronto to pursue her career on stage and screen. Notable theatre credits include Sharla in Killer Joe (Coalmine Theatre) and Elenor in Sense and Sensibility (The Citadel). Television credits include the Expanse and Mrs. America. A lover of genre films she has been lucky to star in several indie horror films including the recent critical success, Don’t Say Its Name. She is also an accomplished voice actor with several current campaigns.
Madison has a background in sketch comedy - both performance and writing - and toured Canada with a professional troupe. In 2014 she was one of three writers selected for Nightwood Theatre's Write From the Hip program and has written two plays, one for the Toronto Fringe. In 2020 Madison co-created and starred in the CBC Gem series, Something Undone, which was officially selected as part of SXSW 2022 among other prestigious festivals. She won the award for Best Original Short Series at Series Mania 2021. Season 2, in which Madison stars and produces, releases in March 2022.
ROSEANNE SUPERNAULT
MAIN CAST
Roseanne Supernault is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for her roles as Natalie Stoney in the television series Blackstone and as the title character in the 2013 film Maïna. Originally from East Prairie, Alberta, she is of Métis and Cree descent.
Supernault won the Best Actress Award at the 2013 American Indian Film Festival for her performance in Maïna.
A graduate of the Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts in Edmonton, Alberta, she has also appeared in the films Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Through Black Spruce, and the television series Rabbit Fall, Into the West and Mixed Blessings.
Supernault runs acting workshops in Vancouver, BC for Indigenous youths and has been active in the Idle No More movement.