TIFF's Canadian projects include Ellen Page doc, Jeff Barnaby thriller

An Ellen Page documentary on environmental racism in Nova Scotia and a Jeff Barnaby-directed zombie thriller centring on an Indigenous community are among the Canadian features headed for the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Organizers have announced all the homegrown films in the lineup for the September film fest. The listalso includes a dark comedy directed by actress Amy Jo Johnsonand starring Felicity Huffman, and an Albert Shin psychological thriller starring Toronto director David Cronenberg.

Other highlights include:

• A dramatic comedy starring Heather Graham and directed by Montreal-based Aisling Chin-Yee, AfterMeToo co-founder.
• A Joey Klein-directed opioid crisis drama starring Neve Campbell, from Guelph, Ont.
• New projects from veteran Indigenous filmmakersAlanis Obomsawin ofMontrealand Zacharias Kunukof Nunavut.

Page's There's Something in the Water,which she co-directed withfellow Emmy-nominated Gaycationco-host and executive producer Ian Daniel, will make its world premiere at the Sept. 5-15 festival in Toronto.

The Oscar-nominated, Halifax-born Junostar focuses the film on women at the forefront of some of Nova Scotia's most urgent environmental crises,as well as affected Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities.

There's Something in the Wateris also the name of a book by Nova Scotian author and activist Ingrid Waldron, which Page tweeted out a recommendation for last December.