Now Is the Time
2019 | 16 minutes | Canada
Director: Christopher Auchter
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2020
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival, 2019
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2019
Official Selection, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, 2019
When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he was instrumental in changing the history of his people forever. With help from his grandparents, his father, and his younger brother Reg, Davidson committed to carving the first new totem pole in Old Massett in almost a century. On the 50th anniversary of the pole’s raising, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter steps easily through history to revisit that day in August 1969, when the entire village gathered to celebrate the event that would signal the rebirth of the Haida spirit.
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Now is the Time and its feature partner, A State of Madness, each examine periods of history where the people harmed by those in power took matters into their own hands. Hindsight, as they say, is 2020.
- Keltie Duncan