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A Thousand Years of Ceremony: Florence Jones and the Struggle for Mount Shasta
1997 - 38 minutes
The Sacred Land Film Project produced this archival film for the Wintu community of northern California and we hope to use it for educational purposes. It premiered at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco in November 1997 and was nominated for the Best Short Documentary award. The film is not for sale, nor is it yet available for distribution.
 A Thousand Years of Ceremony is the story of the Winnemem Wintu's struggle to preserve their spiritual and ceremonial ways of life at Mt. Shasta in northern California. The film profiles medicine woman Florence Jones, the top doctor of the Winnemem Wintu, as she leads an effort to protect sacred sites, language, and healing traditions from the intrusions of New Age spiritual practices, private property interests and the U.S. Forest Service.
A Thousand Years of Ceremony provides an intimate look into one native community's cultural survival, giving the viewer insight into the international struggle for sacred site protection by indigenous people.
Voices of the Land
1991 - 21 minutes
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An exploration of our spiritual connection to the land through an interview with Southern Ute elder Eddie Box, footage of a Hawai'ian protest against geothermal energy development in the rainforest home of the goddess Pele, and a profile of Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman.
Awards: Blue Ribbon, American Film and Video Festival
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Poison in the Rockies
1990 - 54 minutes
 Poison in the Rockies is an update of Downwind/ Downstream for the PBS science show Nova, including 23 minutes of new material. It details how thousands of abandoned mines contaminate water by leaching heavy metals into rivers and streams, and highlights the EPA Superfund Program's effort to clean up toxic mining waste in Leadville, Colorado.
Broadcast History: Broadcast nationally on Nova in January and May of 1990 and in May and December of 1992, with an estimated total audience of 25 million people.
Downwind/Downstream
1987 - 58 minutes
Downwind/Downstream documents serious threats to water quality, subalpine ecosystems and public health in Colorado's Rocky Mountains due to mining, acid rain and urbanization. It examines the AMAX molybdenum mine near Leadville, Colorado, declining populations of salamanders and frogs, and sources of acid rain such as copper smelters, coal-fired power plants and automobiles from as far away as Los Angeles.
 Distribution: Three-week tour of Colorado, 1987; screenings at EPA Regional Headquarters (Denver), Colorado Health Department, Colorado State Legislature, EPA (San Francisco); Congressional screening, May 1989, sponsored by The Wilderness Society.
Broadcast History: Two national broadcasts on the Discovery Channel, 1988-9.
Awards: Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival; Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival; CINE Golden Eagle; Gold Apple, National Educational Film Festival; Special Jury Award, Telluride Mountain Film Festival.
“The air and water cycles are profound and delicate.
Downwind/Downstream shows us how they are being subverted.
The film is scary and beautiful.”
 — Gary Snyder
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983 - 58 minutes
Four Corners documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona — homeland of the Hopi and Navajo. It examines Peabody Coal Company's Black Mesa stripmine and the history of uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau, including the Church Rock tailings spill on the Navajo Reservation, where high levels of lung cancer and birth defects have resulted from radiation exposure.
 Distribution: Seven-week tour of the Southwest, spring 1983; Congressional screening sponsored by Friends of the Earth, November 1983; EPA (DC) and UN (NY) screenings.
Broadcast History: PBS national broadcast, November 1983; the Learning Channel, 1985.
Awards: Academy Award, Best Student Documentary; Best Documentary, San Francisco Native American Film Festival; Best of Category, National Association for Environmental Education Film Festival; CINE Golden Eagle.
“Four Corners is a beautiful, impressive and thoroughly honest film.
I hope millions of people see it.”
— Edward Abbey
The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn with Edward Abbey and Earth First!
1982 - 9 minutes
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The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in this short, poetic film on the legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam. Contains an interview with the late author Edward Abbey and his classic speech from the back of a pick-up truck.
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