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A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance

A Fine Day in Masset: Christopher Auchter Revisits Crucial Moment in Haida Renaissance

It was a fine day in Masset: August 22, 1969. For the first time in living memory a traditional totem pole was being raised in the community. Surrounded by their...

Watch Our New Animated Film: The Mountain of SGaana

Watch Our New Animated Film: The Mountain of SGaana

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that sweeps you off your feet. This is that movie. The Mountain of SGaana is a lyrical, magical tale infused with Haida influences that will delight audiences of all ages.

The Auchter Effect: Haida Myth Gets Animated

The Auchter Effect: Haida Myth Gets Animated

Emerging director Christopher Auchter plunges us into a mythic watery underworld in The Mountain of SGaana, an animated short that's just completed postproduction in the BC & Yukon Studio.

Pacific Animation: Three to Watch

Pacific Animation: Three to Watch

Three. Count ‘em. It’s barely a year since Shirley Vercruysse assumed duties as executive producer of the Pacific & Yukon Studio, and she’s already stickhandling an ambitious troika of animated...

Hadwin’s Judgement Premieres April 27 at Hot Docs

Hadwin’s Judgement Premieres April 27 at Hot Docs

Updated April 23, 2015. It’s a thrilling yarn of man and nature — a maverick eco-warrior, tough and slightly unhinged, and a towering myth of a tree. As a surveyor...