Waiting to Inhale; Marijuana, Medicine and the Law

Images

Donald Abrams MD, AIDS Researcher, Director, First Clinical Study on Cannabis and Neuropathy

Irvin Rosenfeld Patient "1", IND Program Multiple Congenital Cartilaginous Exastosis

Mike Corral Co-founder of WAMM Co-author of Prop 215 WAMM Head Gardener

Valerie Corral Co-Author, Proposition 215 Co-founder, WAMM Epilepsy Patient

Robert Randall, Patient "0" 1945-2001

Susan, WAMM member and patient

Website

http://www.waitingtoinhale.org/

Topics

Human Rights: Civil Rights, Disability, Social Exclusion
Politics: Activism, Civil Society, Ethics & Value Systems, Justice and Crime, Law

Project Geography

US: National

Budget

Raised to date: $462,500.00
Estimate to complete: $100,000.00
Total Estimated Budget: $562,500.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 01/29/2010

Status

Distribution

Media Type

Video

Project End Use

TV

Key Personnel

Jed Riffe
Producer & Director
Jed Riffe is an award-winning independent filmmaker and new media producer. He is best known as the producer and director of Ishi, the Last Yahi. The highly acclaimed dramatic documentary won "Best Documentary" awards at eight major national and international film festivals. Ishi, the Last Yahi was released theatrically and acquired for national broadcast by the PBS series The American Experience.

Riffe is Series producer of California and the American Dream, a four-hour independently produced, nationally broadcast, prime time PBS Series. Riffe produced, directed and co-wrote the Series' opening episode California's "Lost" Tribes with co-producer Jack Kohler and editor and co-writer Maureen Gosling. Riffe produced the fourth episode, Ripe for Change with Emiko Omori who also directed. Jed Riffe and digital designer Emrah Oral created two websites for the series and produced four enhanced DVDs. Riffe and digital guru Emrah Oral are currently producing four interactive kiosks for the Series initiative Public Broadcasting in Public Places funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Riffe produced and directed Waiting to Inhale, the first documentary on the controversy over the legalization of medical marijuana. Jed Riffe Films produced two versions of Waiting to Inhale, the 73 minute theatrical version has won four "Best Documentary" awards and is currently being screened in festivals and released theatrically in US, Canada and Australia, and a 54 minute version which is being screened and discussed by policy makers, and at community, state and national forums debating the use of cannabis as a medicine.

Other documentary films produced and directed by Jed Riffe include Who Owns the Past?, an hour-long, award-winning dramatic documentary on the American Indian struggle for control of their ancestral remains (Independent Lens-PBS). Rosebud to Dallas, an hour-long documentary on the relocation of American Indians (PBS). Promise and Practice, an hour-long documentary on redlining of inner city neighborhoods (PBS).

Riffe directed the super 16MM and HDCAM shoot for Grotte de Chauvet, a documentary on the story behind the oldest cave paintings on earth in the south of France. Riffe line produced Convention, a feature film written by Norman Solomon and lensed in HDCAM by Vicente Franco. Riffe also produced an HDCAM shoot for Brazilian director Luiz Lobo's series Amazônia: Mother of Nature.

In addition to documentary and narrative films Riffe has produced numerous web sites and interactive media including the video elements for a three-station, touch screen, interactive multi-cultural history of California for the Oakland Museum.

In 2001 Riffe was awarded a Gerbode Fellowship. He is a member of the Film Arts Foundation, Bay Area Video Coalition and the International Documentary Association.

Katherine Covell
Co-producer & Writer

Maureen Gosling
Editor

Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)

Looking for National Television Broadcast.

Funders

Location