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.
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