There's Something in the Water

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2019 / 73min.

Rating7.2

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.

Directors

Actors

Elliot Page

Stephen Colbert

John Bates

Dorene Bernard

Ingrid Waldron

Louise Delisle

Michelle Francis-Denny

Jolene Marr

Michelle Paul

Darlene Gilbert

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