The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, in partnership with CBC and CTV and with the support of Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund, announced a series of virtual presentations to reveal the winners of the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards, taking place Monday, May 25, 2020 through Thursday, May 28, 2020.
The Mill has been nominated for Best Documentary Program.
The Mill has received three nominations at Yorkton Film Festival, including:
– The Kathleen Shannon Award
– Director Non-Fiction
– Multicultural Award (30 Minutes & Over)
Don Schwartz
The mill in David Craig’s well-produced environmental documentary is in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The multinational company has been manufacturing paper products there—mostly tissue paper and paper towels—since the 1960s. Within Pictou County is the Mi’kmaq fishing community of Pictou Landing.
The Mill, a CBC POV Doc that aired last summer has been receiving a lot of positive attention from audiences in North America and will be broadcast once again on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 9pm AST on CBC-TV.
The Mill has been nominated for 2020 Best Documentary Program at the Canadian Screen Awards.
Winners will be announced Sunday, March 29, 2020.
When the government of Nova Scotia announced that the Boat Harbour Effluent Treatment Facility would close on Jan. 31, 2020, it was a huge win for the members of Pictou Landing First Nation. In 2014, a spill of untreated wastewater headed to the facility took place near a Mi’kmaq burial ground, prompting residents to set up a protest blockade that prevented the pipe from being repaired — and Nova Scotia’s largest pulp mill, the source of the effluent, from reopening.
Doc offers a current, in-depth and impartial view of a decades-long controversy
Tara Hakim / POV Magazine
The ongoing Northern Pulp saga is coming to a television near you. A documentary film “The Mill”, from Site Media filmmaker David W. Craig and award-winning producer Ann Bernier, explores the entangled history of the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County, and its deeply rooted effects on the economy, the indigenous community and the traditional lifestyles of Pictou County.
Michael Tutton / The Canadian Press
The ongoing Northern Pulp saga is coming to a television near you. A documentary film “The Mill”, from Site Media filmmaker David W. Craig and award-winning producer Ann Bernier, explores the entangled history of the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County, and its deeply rooted effects on the economy, the indigenous community and the traditional lifestyles of Pictou County.
Michael Tutton / The Canadian Press
For filmmaker David Craig, a new documentary depicting the fraught emotions over the future of a rural Nova Scotia pulp mill is not solely a local story. Rather, as tense lines are drawn over Northern Pulp’s plan to pump wastewater into the Northumberland Strait, he sees a wider tale of how Canadian communities can become divided as the interests of heavy industry are pitted against the natural environment.
Michael Tutton / The Canadian Press
For filmmaker David Craig, a new documentary depicting the fraught emotions over the future of a rural Nova Scotia pulp mill is not solely a local story. Rather, as tense lines are drawn over Northern Pulp’s plan to pump wastewater into the Northumberland Strait, he sees a wider tale of how Canadian communities can become divided as the interests of heavy industry are pitted against the natural environment.
