The Sacred Land Film Project’s documentary A Thousand Years of Ceremony: Florence Jones and the Struggle to Save Mt. Shasta, will premiere on the opening night of the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. The 37-minute film is an intimate portrait of Wintu “top doctor” Florence Jones and her community’s efforts to protect sacred sites around Mt. Shasta in northern California. The film was produced as an archival record and a gift to the Wintu people. It will not be publicly distributed. The film will screen on Thursday November 6th at 7:30 pm at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street in San Francisco. Filmmaker Christoper McLeod will be on hand with Wintu leader Caleen Sisk-Franco and her husband Mark Franco.