Hannah Lewis is a Montreal based artist who has been working, for the past decade, as a musician in the art punk collective Red Mass and an experimental pop folk project called Birds of Paradise. As a child her family moved around the world and ended up settling in the arctic city of Iqaluit for her teenage years. Meshes of the Ocean is her first foray into the world of film and is based around a respected family friend from the island of Cape Breton, where her family lived before moving north. Her interest in film was roused by her work on music videos and soundtracks combined with her travels and upbringing. Preservation of culture and knowledge as well as exploring the stories of elders was an important part of life during her youth and continued to inspire the making of this film.
