The Road to Webequie (2016)
- Directed by
- Tess Girard
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary looks at a remote Indigenous community in Northern Ontario. It shows both hope and worry about a new road that would connect them to the outside world.
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What happens
The Road to Webequie is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Tess Girard and Ryan Noth and released in 2016. The film profiles the Webequie First Nation, a remote Nishnawbe Aski community in Northern Ontario, and the potential impacts both positive and negative of the Ontario provincial government's plan to build the community's first all-weather road access as part of the Northern Ontario Ring of Fire mining development. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary Film at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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