To have grown up in a remote mountainous region of British Columbia was to have the National Film Board of Canada on our single television station as a reliable source of insight from elsewhere in the vast country. The films were always of high quality, if sometimes very quirky. I was reminded about it all recently when I received a notice from the organization about a new film by The Yukon filmmaker Fritz Mueller of Sagafish Media. His Voices Across the Water focuses on two traditional canoe builders from radically different areas and traditions. The film intertwines their stories like a cultural long-splice: at first it seems as though it could never work, but in service it somehow proves more than admirable.