The Return of Navajo Boy (2000)
56 min
An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, The Return of Navajo Boy is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mandated a clean-up plan by the five agencies responsible for uranium contamination. Ironically, the US EPA's Comprehensive Five-Year Plan did not include Ms. Begay's backyard, until she travelled with this film to Washington, DC and screened it on Capitol Hill in September, 2008.
- Date de sortie
- 28 janvier 2000
- Pays d'origine
- États-Unis
- Musique
- Douglas Spotted Eagle
Bande-annonce
Distribution
- Lorenzo Begay dans le rôle de Narrator
Équipe technique
- Jeff Spitz · Réalisateur
- Bennie Klain · Producteur
- Jeff Spitz · Producteur
- Douglas Spotted Eagle · Compositeur
- Mark Eveslage · Directeur de la photographie
- Sharon Karp · Monteur