30th Annual - June 10 - 13, 2010
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Standing Silent Nation
documentary
Running Time: 53
What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. They put their hopes for a sustainable economy in hemp's hardiness and a booming worldwide demand for its many products, from clothing to food. Although growing hemp, a relative of marijuana, was banned in the U.S., Alex believed that tribal sovereignty, along with hemp's non-psychoactive properties, would protect him. But when federal agents raided the White Plume's fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense. Standing Silent Nation tells the story of Alex White Plume's efforts to pull his family out of poverty despite the obstacles of an irrational federal policy. The film transports the viewer into a world and a way of being that has nearly been erased from the general American consciousness.
Producer: Courtney Hermann
Director: Suree Towfighnia
Editor: Sharon Karp
Cinematographer:
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