Peppered Films
Angie’s own banner, by design. No storefront or separate site. It is the work she brings into the room: independent film and television developed under her name, and creative contributions to co-productions and partner studios.
The short version
I produce stories that move culture. I work with people who know the value of that.
Director and producer. Angie-Pepper O’Bomsawin (Abenaki, from Odanak) writes, directs, and executive-produces across broadcast, corporate, and commercial. Founder of Peppered Films, co-founder of Kasko Productions, with Kasko Media soon to come.
Selected credits include Little Big Community (CSA nominated every season to date), Chuck and the First Peoples’ Kitchen (CSA nominated), The Ultimate Fighter Nations, Forensic Factor: A New Era, Skindigenous, and Bull’s Eye. The work has many postal codes. She’s on the holding title for every one of them.
The longer story
Angie is a bilingual Abenaki woman from Odanak who has called Mohawk territory home since she was fifteen. Raised by community and sisterhood, she learned to take up space without apology. Her son Shakohahiiostha is the foundation under every move.
Her mother is where she inherited a fierce heart. Her father is where she inherited the unwavering edge. Her Ihstha’ (Auntie) Kahn-Tineta told her it would be twice as hard as a Native woman, and to wear heels so she could look them in the eye while she took up space in those rooms without permission. The rooms were historically white, English, and male. Angie walked into them anyway, wearing 8-eyelet docs instead.
She trained at Capilano College in film and video production. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Concordia in 2009. The first years on set were production coordinator, script supervisor, locations manager, producer’s assistant. Story room coordinator on Mohawk Girls. Continuity on Le Dep. She was mentored inside companies that opened doors. Then she stopped working inside other people’s projects.
Peppered Films came first. Kasko followed. Becoming a producer was the move that put her in a position to protect stories with integrity, honour, and respect. The credit lists got long because the production lists did first.
She built her creative rooted in a sharp strategic approach. Picked up the budget. Ran the show.
She kept learning while she taught. From 2006 to 2008 she hosted a morning radio show on K103 in Kahnawà:ke, alongside Big Sexy (Jessie Deer, Rest In Power), Vinny Barrucco, Joe DelRonde, and Lance Delise. She worked in the film and television department at Concordia. She taught documentary at Kiuna College. She walked teenagers at Lake of Two Mountains High School through their first short documentaries. Mentorship is in the credits because it was in the practice.
Today Angie co-writes, co-directs, and co-executive-produces Little Big Community, a docuseries with a Canadian Screen Award nomination every season to date, and she is the longstanding writer on Chuck and the First Peoples’ Kitchen, where her writing earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination in 2022. In 2026 she directed season two, episode four of Forensic Factor: A New Era, bringing a missing and murdered story into the mainstream. She was one of six directors on Skindigenous (2019–2020), where she also wrote; she co-directed Hit the Ice (2018) and directed Première Ligne (2016), and wrote and directed Stanley Vollant (2015). She produced The Ultimate Fighter Nations (2014), and was a story producer on Canada’s Ultimate Challenge. She produced Ahchiouta’a (2019), the animated web series carried by TV5, APTN, and Unis, and co-built Bull’s Eye (2021) as director and executive producer, the APTN youth game show that ran for one season under hard pandemic conditions, earning trust across two territories.
Mid-career, with a working production company already under her belt, she went back to school twice on purpose. The Producers Program at L’inis, the National Institute of Image and Sound, in 2017. The NSI Art of Business Management, Indigenous Edition, in its inaugural cohort in 2021. The world kept asking for more. She went to get it.
She’s still directing. She’s still producing. She’s still developing new work through Peppered Films and Kasko. Twenty years in, with a body of work that’s shifted what’s possible on Canadian and international screens, on a slate that keeps moving.
She built this world from navigating the impossible.
That’s not the line on the credit list, but it’s the realest.
How she works
What Angie insists on
Indigenous people, Black people, women, queer folx, and anyone who has had to fight to be heard, on real projects. In front of and behind the camera. Paid, credited, and shaping the work. On networks and platforms historically built without them. Their stories told for them.
What she protects
Narrative clarity, production discipline, and the relationships that make the work possible. She brings the same standards into broadcast, corporate, and commercial.
What she doesn’t do
Token chairs, aesthetics carrying the weight of ethics, or the ‘first’ without the structure to make a second.
Who she’s intentional about
Who’s watching. She’s built her career as a visible example for Indigenous youth and for women building creative careers on their own terms.
What the work carries
What was handed to you doesn’t have to be where you stop.
- Indigenous storytelling on mainstream stages.
- Building production companies that under-resourced creatives can lead from.
- Bilingual storytelling across Anglo and Franco markets.
- Mentorship as part of the work, not adjacent to it.
- Long-form documentary, dramatic reconstruction, factual entertainment, animation, kids’ programming, and commercial.
Don’t wait to be asked to the table. Pull up a chair, build a bigger one and make room for more.
Companies
100% Indigenous-owned and operated, originally co-founded with Angélique Richer. Home of Little Big Community and Angie’s broadcast slate.
Media
The commercial and advertising arm, an extension of Kasko Productions. Brand and commercial work. Launching publicly soon.