In Person: Jim Hart and Reg Davidson. The Haida live on Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off the coast of British Columbia. Their 10,000-year-old culture celebrates the need to conserve natural resources and to create "objects of bright pride." I Called Her Lootas celebrates an object of pride and utility, the hand-carved war canoe, whose importance in the Haida culture cannot be overestimated. In this film young Haida men and women, piloting a traditionally-made craft, retrace a treacherous 1500 kilometer voyage along the storm-battered North Pacific coast, duplicating a feat frequently undertaken by their intrepid ancestors. They are welcomed with great ceremony and good humor by members of the coastal tribes whose territories they pass through. Narrated by William Reid, a renowned Haida artist and scholar. Box of Treasures tells of the return of ritual objects of the Kwakiutl people that had been removed by the Canadian government in the late 19th century, and of the cultural center at Alert Bay which now houses them. The Kwakiutl culture is heavily documented by anthropologists, but always in the past tense. This film, and the movement for justice it traces, declares the culture to be very much alive. "In the faces of totem poles are the faces of change." Jim Hart and Reg Davidson are Haida artists in residence sponsored by the Headlands Center. Both studied under William Reid.