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Kayak to Klemtu
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'Kayak to Klemtu' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Zoe Leigh Hopkins and released in 2017.Alison Gillmor, "Movie pushes environmental message: Kayak to Klemtu a protest against supertankers, pipelines in First Nations territories". 'Winnipeg Free Press', August 11, 2018. 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.Chris Knight, [https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/kayak-to-klemtu-makes-for-a-well-meaning-movie-that-doesnt-quite-work "Kayak to Klemtu makes for a well-meaning movie that doesnt quite work"]. 'National Post', May 25, 2018.
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,Michelle Ruby, "Curtain rises on film fest; ImagineNative sees strong representation from Six Nations". 'Brantford Expositor', October 19, 2017. where it won the Audience Choice Award.[https://www.albertanativenews.com/kayak-to-klemtu-wins-imaginenative-audience-choice-award/ "Kayak to Klemtu wins imagineNATIVE Audience Choice Award"]. 'Alberta Native News', October 25, 2017. 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.Sabrina Furminger, [https://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/pipeline-protests-fuel-family-film-1.23371429 "Pipeline protests fuel family film"]. 'Vancouver Courier', July 17, 2018.
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