| Kayak to Klemtu | |
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| Directed by | Zoe Leigh Hopkins |
| Written by | Zoe Leigh Hopkins Scooter Corkle Michael Sparaga |
| Produced by | Daniel Bekerman |
| Starring | Ta'Kaiya Blaney Sonja Bennett Evan Adams |
| Cinematography | Vince Arvidson |
| Edited by | Simone Smith |
| Music by | Oleksa Lozowchuk |
Production company | Scythia Films |
| Distributed by | Mongrel Media |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
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]
