Cinema Classroom at The Avalon – There’s Something in the Water

Cinema Classroom at the historic Avalon Theater offers free programming to schools and students in grades 6-12. Featured films engage students in pressing human rights and social justice issues through screenings and expert-guided discussions. Films are paired with interviews hosted by subject-matter experts who guide students through engaging post-film discussions.

There’s Something in the Water is a disturbing and, frankly, terrifying portrait of ecological and social disasters in director Elliot Page’s native Nova Scotia. Based on Ingrid Waldron’s incendiary study, the film follows Page as he travels to rural areas of the province that are plagued by toxic fallout from industrial development. Together with collaborator Ian Daniel, Elliot discovers that these catastrophes have been precisely placed, all in remote, low-income — and very often Indigenous or Black — communities