Nature Girl

Nature Girl

TRENT MAYNARD + CANDACE CAMPO | CANADA | 2026 | 27 MIN | ENGLISH EST

TRENT MAYNARD + CANDACE CAMPO | CANADA | 2026 | 27 MIN | ENGLISH EST

VIRTUALShortINDIGIQUEER VOICES

Subtitles: English

Synopsis

Rooted in six years of fieldwork in shíshálh territory, Nature Girl reimagines the nature documentary through listening, reciprocity and queer ecology, observing the relationships between humans, animals, plants and land as the rhythms of the forest shift across seasons.

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Filmmaker Bio

Trent Maynard (they/he) is a queer settler Canadian artist and filmmaker working across art, film and ethnoecology. Candace Campo, ancestral name xets'emits'a, is a shíshálh knowledge keeper, anthropologist, teacher and co-founder of Talaysay Tours. Her work centres Indigenous cultural education, language and cultural revitalization, and intergenerational relationships with the land. Together, Maynard and Campo bring queer ecology, Indigenous knowledge and long-term attention to place into their collaborative filmmaking practice.

Filmmaker Bio

Trent Maynard (they/he) is a queer settler Canadian artist and filmmaker working across art, film and ethnoecology. Candace Campo, ancestral name xets'emits'a, is a shíshálh knowledge keeper, anthropologist, teacher and co-founder of Talaysay Tours. Her work centres Indigenous cultural education, language and cultural revitalization, and intergenerational relationships with the land. Together, Maynard and Campo bring queer ecology, Indigenous knowledge and long-term attention to place into their collaborative filmmaking practice.

Director's Statement

Nature Girl emerged from years of returning to the same forest in shíshálh territory, where our practice shifted from observing wildlife to learning relationship with the land. […] Guided by shíshálh knowledge and queer ecology, and shaped through long-term attention, the film celebrates the surprising multispecies relationships of the coastal rainforest. […] Nature Girl reflects a relational approach to filmmaking—one that invites audiences to move beyond objectifying wildlife and into making relationships with the land.

Producer

Candace Campo, Trent Maynard

Writer

Candace Campo, Trent Maynard

Cast

Candace Campo
Trent Maynard

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