Kayak to Klemtu

Kayak to Klemtu
Film poster
Directed byZoe Leigh Hopkins
Written byZoe Leigh Hopkins
Scooter Corkle
Michael Sparaga
Produced byDaniel Bekerman
StarringTa'Kaiya Blaney
Sonja Bennett
Evan Adams
CinematographyVince Arvidson
Edited bySimone Smith
Music byOleksa Lozowchuk
Production
company
Scythia Films
Distributed byMongrel Media
Release date
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Kayak to Klemtu is a Canadian drama film, directed by Zoe Leigh Hopkins and released in 2017.[1] 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.[2]

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,[3] where it won the Audience Choice Award.[4] It went into commercial release in 2018.[1]

At the 2018 Leo Awards, Blaney won the award for Best Actress and Bennett won the award for Best Supporting Actress.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Alison Gillmor, "Movie pushes environmental message: Kayak to Klemtu a protest against supertankers, pipelines in First Nations territories". Winnipeg Free Press, August 11, 2018.
  2. ^ Chris Knight, "Kayak to Klemtu makes for a well-meaning movie that doesn’t quite work". National Post, May 25, 2018.
  3. ^ Michelle Ruby, "Curtain rises on film fest; ImagineNative sees strong representation from Six Nations". Brantford Expositor, October 19, 2017.
  4. ^ "‘Kayak to Klemtu’ wins imagineNATIVE Audience Choice Award". Alberta Native News, October 25, 2017.
  5. ^ Sabrina Furminger, "Pipeline protests fuel family film". Vancouver Courier, July 17, 2018.
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