Nootka St. is a film production studio founded by directors and producers Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams. Known for our emotionally raw and visually stunning investigative documentaries, our productions have screened for theatrical, television, and online audiences around the world. Our latest feature documentary, SATAN WANTS YOU, was one of the buzziest and most talked about titles at SXSW 2023—with Variety praising the documentary as "this year's scariest documentary" and critics awarding the film with a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film—which explores the origin story of the global Satanic Panic in the 1980s and '90s—won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Fantasia International Film Festival and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary. It’s currently available for streaming on TUBI in the United States and on CBC Gem in Canada. 

Horlor and Adams are currently directing a new feature documentary called FINDING JODI, a shocking, investigative documentary that follows the story of a rom-com film producer who has uncovered new evidence in the 2009 disappearance of a young woman on a small island in the North Pacific. Nootka's slate of up-coming projects also includes SHADOW ON THE HIGHWAY, a four-part true-crime docu series, and NOTHING LEFT TO HIDE, a feature doc investigating one of the biggest political scandals of the 2010s.

Sean and Steve's debut feature-length documentary SOMEONE LIKE ME—produced by the National Film Board of Canada—was an emotional journey through the immigration sponsorship process in Canada. Following ten strangers over a year as they supported the resettlement of an LGBTQ refugee from Uganda, the film offered an intimate, insightful portrait of humanity and won international acclaim, including the esteemed Roger’s Audience Award at Toronto’s Hot Docs in 2021. 

Nookta Street has also produced a number of short films, including the award-winning THE DAY DON DIED (Hot Docs 2019, Palm Springs Shortfest 2019), as well as BRUNCH QUEEN (Inside Out 2018) and A SMALL PART OF ME (BFI Flare 2017).

Sean and Steve's path to feature filmmaking began after they appeared on OUTtv’s Hot Pink Shorts documentary series in 2012.