TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hollywood star Ellen Page has returned to...
TORONTO - Hollywood star Ellen Page has returned to her native Nova Scotia on Canada’s Atlantic coast to direct her first film on “environmental racism”, debuting Sunday at Toronto’s International Film Festival.
Page, also known for her roles in “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Inception,” based her documentary on a book of the same name by Ingrid Waldron, a nursing professor at Canada’s Dalhousie University.“When you just impose yourself on communities ... with no consultation, it’s a huge slap in the face and disrespect,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.
The documentary was filmed in less than two weeks in April when Page traveled to interview activists and “water protectors”, she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in emailed comments. African Nova Scotian communities, many of whom were British loyalists, resettled in Canada after the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century and were promised farmland by the British on territory that was then a British colony, Waldron said.
“African Nova Scotian communities were promised lands that were never given to them,” Waldron explained.
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