NOW IS THE TIME

Directed by Christopher Auchter · Starring Robert Davidson, Reg Davidson, Barbara Wilson, Jane Kristovich · 2019

In 1969, 22-year-old Haida carver Robert Davidson raised the first new totem pole on Haida Gwaii in nearly a century. Fifty years later, a Haida filmmaker revisits that day and the cultural revival it began.

A joyful, inventive look back at the day a single totem pole reawakened the Haida spirit.

When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii in almost a century. On the 50th anniversary of the pole’s raising, H

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