The Road to Webequie

The Road to Webequie is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Tess Girard and Ryan Noth and released in 2016.[1] The film profiles the Webequie First Nation, a remote Nishnawbe Aski community in Northern Ontario, and the potential impacts both positive and negative of the Ontario provincial government's plan to build the community's first all-weather road access as part of the Northern Ontario Ring of Fire mining development.[2]

The Road to Webequie
Directed byTess Girard
Ryan Noth
Produced byTess Girard
Ryan Noth
Kersh Theva
Written byTess Girard
Ryan Noth
Kersh Theva
Music byPaul Aucoin
CinematographyTess Girard
John Price
Edited byRyan Noth
Andres Landau
Production
company
Fifth Town Films
Distributed byBravoFACT
Release date
  • September 13, 2016 (2016-09-13) (TIFF)
Running time
19 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] It was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary Film at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.[4]

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