Now Is the Time (2019)
September 6, 2019Release Date
Now Is the Time (2019)
September 6, 2019Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Davidson
Self
Reg Davidson
Self
Barbara Wilson
Self
Jane Kristovich
Self (voice)
Percy Rodriguez
Self (voice)
Joe Weir
Self (voice)
Victor Adams
Self (voice)
Robert Davidson Sr.
Self (uncredited)
Selwyn Jacob
Producer
Florence Davidson
Self (voice) / Self (uncredited)
Jennifer Roworth
Line Producer
Alicia Eisen
Animation
Tim Linklater
Graphic Designer
Sarah Hedar
Editor
Ramsay Bourquin
Sound Recordist
Asia Youngman
Director of Photography
Christopher Auchter
Animation
Teri Snelgrove
Associate Producer
Chris McLaren
Sound Designer
Genevieve Vincent
Original Music Composer
Kristyn Stilling
Production Coordinator
Christopher Auchter
Writer / Director
Shirley Vercruysse
Executive Producer
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This Movie Is About.
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Now Is the Time is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Christopher Auchter and released in 2019. Created to mark the 50th anniversary of Haida artist Robert Davidson carving and erecting a totem pole on Haida Gwaii in 1969 for the first time in nearly a century, the film blends historical footage from Eugene Boyko's 1970 documentary film This Was the Time with contemporary footage, including the now elderly Davidson's own reflections on the historic importance of his project. The film was made as part of a National Film Board of Canada project, encouraging indigenous filmmakers to make new works responding to and recontextualizing the sometimes colonialist outsider perspectives reflected in many of the organization's old documentaries on First Nations and Inuit cultures.
The film premiered on September 7, 2019 at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and was selected for inclusion in Op-Docs, The New York Times streaming platform for short documentary films.
The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.
Waaydanaa, a Haida language version of the film, was released in 2024.