Events › The Stand: Film Screening and Q&A with Director

On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future.

In the riveting new feature documentary The Stand, drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, award-winning director Christopher Auchter recreates the critical moment when the Haida Nation’s resolute act of vision and conscience changed the world.

Following the screening of this film, we will host a discussion and Q&A with director Christopher Auchter, facilitated by APTN journalist Tina House.

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Christopher Auchter grew up roaming the beaches and forests of the Haida Gwaii archipelago off Canada’s West Coast, and his art is rooted in the land and stories of the Haida people. Auchter’s art practice is fuelled by his close connection to the natural environment, his adventures in forestry and commercial fishing, and the colourful people with whom he has lived and worked. He has directed four films with the NFB to date, including the award-winning animated short The Mountain of SGaana (2017) and the short doc Now Is the Time (2019), a Sundance, TIFF and NYT Op-Docs selection. Most recently, Auchter’s feature doc The Stand (2024) received the Audience Award, Northern Lights program, at VIFF.

Tina House has been a full-time Video Journalist with APTN National News in the BC bureau since July 2007. A proud Métis born in Vancouver, in 2010 she received the Amnesty International - Human Rights Journalism Award for Canada for her work on a half hour APTN Investigates story on Missing Women. In 2022, Ms. House was bestowed the Canadian Screen Award for Best National Reporter. She is the first Indigenous Journalist to ever receive this honour.