Jed Riffe

Jed Riffe is an award-winning film director, producer and transmedia storyteller. Over the last thirty years Riffe produced seven nationally broadcast public television specials including a four-hour TV series, three theatrical released documentaries and four major interactive media installations. He is best known as producer and director of these award-winning films: "Ishi, the Last Yahi", the true story of the man known as the Last Wild Indian in North America; "Who Owns the Past?", the American Indian struggle for control of their ancestral remains; "California's 'Lost' Tribes" examines the impact of Indian gaming on Native Americans and their non-Indian neighbors and "Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine and the Law", the first documentary on the movement to legalize medical cannabis and the efficacy of medicinal cannabis. Most recently, Riffe produced "The Long Shadow" on the legacy of slavery, and "A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream". Both films were