There's Something in the Water

There's Something in the Water
Film poster
Directed byElliot Page
Ian Daniel
Based onThere's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities
by Ingrid Waldron
Produced byElliot Page
Ian Daniel
Julia Sanderson
Ingrid Waldron
CinematographyIan Daniel
Elliot Page
Edited byXavier Coleman
Hugo Perez
Production
company
2 Weeks Notice
Release date
  • September 8, 2019 (2019-09-08) (TIFF)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

There's Something in the Water is a 2019 Canadian documentary film, directed by Elliot Page and Ian Daniel.[1] An examination of environmental racism, the film explores the disproportionate effect of environmental damage on Black Canadian and First Nations communities in Nova Scotia.[1] The film takes its name from Ingrid Waldron's book on environmental racism, There's Something in the Water.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Nova Scotian stories of Environmental racism hit the big screen at TIFF in Ellen Page documentary". Toronto Star, July 31, 2019.
  2. ^ "'There's Something in the Water': Film Review | TIFF 2019". The Hollywood Reporter. 8 September 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-21.