When Ellen Page read a book by Ingrid Waldron highlighting the environmental and social injustices happening in Nova Scotia, Page—who grew up there—felt moved to tweet Waldron. And so began a conve…
When Ellen Page read a book by Ingrid Waldron highlighting the environmental and social injustices happening in Nova Scotia, Page—who grew up there—felt moved to tweet Waldron. And so began a conversation that would become the documentaryFor Page, this dark underbelly to where she grew up needed to be urgently addressed.
“It was Ingrid’s connections with a lot of the local activists, and other people’s connections, that enabled us to get in touch with people and start the conversations,” Page said at Deadline’s TIFF studio—and start essentially planning a film shoot. So, it was really this decision, this sense of urgency, because all of these issues are incredibly urgent.
Daniel agreed that working with the women activists was vital to production. “Those scenes you’re witnessing are just very raw,” he said, “they’re very powerful, but this is the reality that you’re living in. So, it just clicked like that. Everyone was so gracious to offer their time, and their homes, and their community for us to enter.”
For Louise, one of the key activists featured in the film, this is a fight that she will never give up. “In the beginning,” she said, “when I started working on this specific project to bring my community together to discuss environmental racism, I brought it up in a way that it got picked up by a lot of media, and it went out, And one of my, supposedly, counselors, who was supposed to be working for me in my community, accused me of using the race card.
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