Jed Riffe
2021Jed 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.
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Ishi The Last Yahi
Jed Riffe
Documentary - Linda Hunt narrates this documentary look at Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Native American tribe following massacres in California in the late 1800s. This PBS film celebrates the human spirit while indicting the settlers' treatment of Native Americans. - Rayna Green, Linda Hunt
Ishi The Last Yahi
Waiting to Inhale
Jed Riffe
Waiting to Inhale examines the heated debate over marijuana and its use as medicine in the United States. Twelve states have passed legislation to protect patients who use medical marijuana. Yet opponents claim the medical argument is just a smokescreen for a different agenda-- to legalize marijuana for recreation and profit. What claims are being made, and what are the stakes? Waiting to Inhale takes viewers inside the lives of patients who have been forever changed by illness-and parents who lost their children to addiction. Is marijuana really a gateway drug? What evidence is there to support the claim that marijuana can alleviate some of the devastating symptoms of AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis? Waiting to Inhale sheds new light on this controversy and presents shocking new evidence that marijuana could hold a big stake in the future of medicine.
Waiting to Inhale
Who Owns the Past?
George Burdeau, Jed Riffe
Linda Hunt
This documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe tells the story of how the discovery of a 9000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington.
Who Owns the Past?
