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Kayak to Klemtu (2017)

Kayak to Klemtu poster
Directed by
Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
14A
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenage First Nations girl kayaks 500 kilometers to testify against a pipeline. She takes up her late uncle's activism and travels to her ancestral home.

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What happens

Kayak to Klemtu is a Canadian drama film, directed by Zoe Leigh Hopkins and released in 2017. The film stars Ta'Kaiya Blaney as Ella, a teenage First Nations girl from Vancouver who decides following the death of her uncle Bear (Evan Adams) to take up his activism against a proposed pipeline development, and undertakes a 500-kilometre kayak trip to the family's ancestral home at Klemtu to testify at the pipeline hearings. The film's cast also includes Sonja Bennett, Carmel Armit, Tyler Burrows, Jared Ager-Foster and Lorne Cardinal. The film premiered on October 20, 2017, at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award. It went into commercial release in 2018. At the 2018 Leo Awards, Blaney won the award for Best Actress and Bennett won the award for Best Supporting Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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