Jed Riffe

Jed Riffe (born in Dallas Texas) is an award winning filmmaker and founder of Jed Riffe Films + Electronic Media. For over 25 years his documentary films have focused on social issues including: Native American histories and struggles (Ishi, the Last Yahi, California's "Lost" Tribes, Who Owns the Past?,) and agriculture, food and sustainability issues (Ripe for Change, Germ Wars). He currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]

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Biography

Riffe was born in Dallas Texas and attended El Centro College in Dallas University where he studied journalism. In l968, he published The Good Life magazine and soon became politically involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements in Texas.

He organized demonstrations as part of the national Vietnam Moratorium Committee campaign, and was hired as the Texas organizer for Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. It was then that he began showing documentary films as a tool for social change. His filmmaking is an extension of his early activism.

His most acclaimed film, Ishi, the Last Yahi was released theatrically and broadcast nationally on the PBS series The American Experience. The film went on to win "Best Documentary" awards at eight major national and international film festivals and was nominated for an a national Emmy award in 1994.[2]

California and the American Dream was featured on Independent Lens.

Jed Riffe Films + Electronic is also known for producing interactive digital museums exhibits.[3]

Filmography

Awards and recognition

Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine and the Law

Ripe for Change

California's "Lost" Tribes

Who Owns the Past?

Ishi, the Last Yahi

References

  1. ^ http://www.jedriffefilms.com
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726453/
  3. ^ http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/jed_riffes_advice_for_aspiring_documentarians_20080404/

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