Film Collection

WAITING TO INHALE

(2000) Waiting to Inhale examines the current debate over legalizing medical marijuana in the United States. What are the claims being made, and what are the stakes? Ten states have passed legislation permitting medical marijuana, but opponents claim that patients who advocate legalization are only smokescreens for the legalization of marijuana altogether.

ISHI, THE LAST YAHI

(1994) The year 1911 was a low point in history for Native Americans. Contact with white men's diseases and violence had reduced their numbers from over 10 million to less than 300,000. In California, there were only 50,000 Indians alive. Most were living on reservations or had been assimilated into the general population.

WHO OWNS THE PAST?

(2001) The final decades of the twentieth century brought unprecedented changes for American Indians, especially in the areas of human rights and tribal sovereignty. In 1990, after a long struggle between Indian rights groups and the scientific establishment, the Native American Graves Repatriation and Protection Act was passed.

RIPE FOR CHANGE

(2006)Through the "window" of food and agriculture, Ripe for Change reveals two parallel yet contrasting views of our world. One holds that large-scale agriculture, genetic engineering, and technology promise a hunger-less future. The other calls for a more organic, sustainable, and locally focused style of farming that reclaims the aesthetic and nurturing qualities of food and considers the impact of agriculture on the environment, on communities, and on workers. Ripe for Change was directed by award-winning filmmaker Emiko Omori.