Ellen Page Says She Never Intended to Make a Film About

“There’s Something in the Water” filmmaker Ellen Page mentioned she by no means supposed to make a characteristic movie about environmental racism in Nova Scotia, Canada — she initially simply needed to make use of her platform to boost consciousness concerning the situation.

“I’m originally from the province of Nova Scoatia, Halifax, born and raised, graduated high school there and my family is still there,” Page informed TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman on the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. “I started learning more and more about this issue of environmental racism in Nova Scotia, and I had no idea about a lot of these issues.”

Once conscious of the issues, she needed to study extra and located Ingrid Waldron’s “essential, incredible book” of the identical title.

“It just felt absolutely imperative to contact Ingrid, to help use the platform and the privilege that I have, and the presence I’d say in Nova Scotia, to help get the voices out there. It evolved from there — we didn’t intend to make a feature film. When we went, that wasn’t at all what we were thinking — we did not think it was going to turn into something this elaborate,” Page mentioned.

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Initially, she had simply deliberate to place “little pieces online to get the word out there,” however then Page began interviewing folks within the communities that had been affected by this environmental racism and it become a full-fledged documentary.

The documentary focuses on the accidents brought on by environmental racism inflicted on the communities in her dwelling province. In the movie, she travels via the world that’s suffering from poisonous fallout from industrial improvement, which occurs to be in low-income, distant communities.

Watch the video above.