Name Jed Riffe | Role Filmmaker | |
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Movies Ishi, the Last Yahi, A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone People also search for Emiko Omori, Maureen Gosling, Luke Griswold-Tergis, Manolo Turri | ||
Fair Use & Documentary | Examples of Fair Use - Who Owns the Past?
Jed Riffe is an award winning filmmaker and founder of Jed Riffe Films + Electronic Media. For over 30 years his documentary films have focused on social issues and politics 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,). He currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contents
- Fair Use Documentary Examples of Fair Use Who Owns the Past
- Biography
- Filmography
- Waiting to Inhale Marijuana Medicine and the Law
- Ripe for Change
- Californias Lost Tribes
- Who Owns the Past
- Ishi the Last Yahi
- References
Biography
Riffe was born in Dallas, Texas and attended El Centro College in Dallas where he studied journalism. In 1968, 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 a national Emmy award in 1994.
Riffe served as series and exzecutive producer on California and the American Dream, an independently produced national series was featured on PBS.
Riffe’s other major credits include interactive producer and video director of the first Africana Interactive Studies Center at Merritt College; interactive producer/writer for four interactive exhibits for the Autry Museum of American History; interactive producer and writer for the award-winning “Public Broadcasting In Public Places.” Riffe and his team designed, programmed, built and installed four innovative, interactive media kiosks with 160 minutes of specially edited interactive content from the “California and the American Dream” series. Riffe wrote, produced and directed “TV of Tomorrow,” an interactive prototype demonstrating the possible ways interactive content might appear on television in the future. In 1990, Riffe produced 86 minutes of video for three interactive History Information Stations, at the Oakland Museum of California.
Riffe also consults on film and video distribution