Free showing of environmental racism documentary at Oshawa’s Regent Theatre
Published October 7, 2024 at 11:45 am
A documentary exploring injustices caused by environmental racism in Nova Scotia will get a free screening October 24 at the Regent Theatre in Oshawa during the Durham Region International Film Festival (DRIFF)
The documentary, based on a book by Ingrid Waldron, examines the legacy and impacts of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Nova Scotia.
Page, who is from Nova Scotia, brings attention to the ecological and social disasters his home province in this film on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.
Page (Juno, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Umbrella Academy) travels to rural areas of the province plagued by toxic fallout from industrial development and discovers (as did Waldron) that these environmental disasters all happened in areas populated by low-income – and often Indigenous or Black – residents.
As noted in the description on the film, which had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, “your postal code determines your health.”
The event, presented by the Oshawa Environmental Advisory Committee and Ontario Tech University’s Office of Campus Infrastructure and Sustainability, will start at 6:30 p.m. with a networking opportunity for attendees. The film will be screened shortly after 7 p.m.
Admission for the night is free. There will be a cash bar and door prizes awarded after the screening. Donations of non-perishable food items for our local food bank will also be accepted.
