There's Something in the Water

The documentary takes up environmental racism in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The burden of toxic waste and polluted water falls disproportionately on African Nova Scotian and Indigenous communities. The film puts the women of those communities at its centre and tells of their fight to protect their land, their health and their futures. Louise Delisle, Michelle Francis-Denny and Dorene Bernard describe what is happening in their own communities. Ingrid Waldron is among those speaking as well. Elliot Page is from this province and tells the story through his own home ground. The account stands openly with the communities and does not hide it. Who decides where pollution gets put is the real question the film asks. The seventy three minute Canadian documentary by Ian Daniel and Elliot Page was completed in 2019.