| Kayak to Klemtu | |
| Director: | Zoe Leigh Hopkins |
| Producer: | Daniel Bekerman |
| Starring: | Ta'Kaiya Blaney Sonja Bennett Evan Adams |
| Music: | Oleksa Lozowchuk |
| Cinematography: | Vince Arvidson |
| Editing: | Simone Smith |
| Studio: | Scythia Films |
| Distributor: | Mongrel Media |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
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.[4] It went into commercial release in 2018.[1]
At the 2018 Leo Awards, Blaney won the award for Best Actress and Bennett won the award for Best Supporting Actress.[5]