ellen page is checking her privilege and using it for good

The actor makes her directorial debut with a film about injustice in her hometown.

Louise Delisle drives down the main street of her hometown of Shelburne in Nova Scotia, past storybook houses that back onto beautiful forests. As she drives she points out the households -- dozens of them, predominantly owned by people of colour -- in which residents have died or are dying from cancer. There are almost too many to count.

Which is why we’re here today, on the quiet rooftop of a coffee spot in Toronto, away from the hustle and bustle of the city’s world-renowned film festival wherehad its world premiere last night. The immediate feedback has been overwhelming. After the screening donations for those in need started to roll in, while Page quietly announced she’d be funding a well for the town of Shelburne to provide its residents with clean water.

Ellen, Ian and their producer Ingrid spoke to the community’s Grassroot Grandmothers, a group leading the fight for change. “Through the conversation with them we decided, ‘Let’s come up with cameras and put the footage online’,” Ellen says. “It felt so urgent. We decided that we should do it and show multiple examples, so the government could recognise it as a systemic issue.

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