Christopher (Toby) McLeod
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Indigenous Lands
(1018 people) | Land Stewardship
(1306 people) | Religion and Ecology
(951 people) | Indigenous Rights
(1384 people) | Environmental Justice
(1641 people) | Environmental Ethics
(1383 people) | Environmental Education
(2482 people) | Corporate Ethics
(1642 people) | Film
(1227 people) | Cultural Heritage Conservation
(948 people) | Photography
(1314 people) | Indigenous People and Culture
(2102 people) | Arts Activism
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About
Christopher (Toby) McLeod produced and directed the documentary film In the Light of Reverence, which tells the stories of three Native American communities — the Lakota, Hopi and Winnemem Wintu — as they fight to protect important sacred sites. McLeod has made three other award-winning, hour-long documentary films that were broadcast on national television: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? (1983), Downwind/Downstream (1988), and Poison in the Rockies (1990). Since 1984, McLeod has been the Project Director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project (www.sacredland.org). In 1990, he produced Voices of the Landas a 20-minute preview of the Sacred Land Film Project's work-in-progress on sacred places. In 1997, he completed A Thousand Years of Ceremony, a 40-minute profile of Wintu healer Florence Jones and her efforts to protect Mt. Shasta as a sacred site for the Wintu (This film was made specifically as an archival film for the use of the Wintu community.). After ten years of work, he completed In the Light of Reverence (2001), which was broadcast on the acclaimed PBS documentary series P.O.V. (Point of View) and won the Council on Foundation’s prestigious Henry Hampton Award in 2005. His first film was the 9-minute short, The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn - with Edward Abbey and Earth First! McLeod has a Masters Degree in Journalism from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in American history from Yale. He is a journalist who works in film, video, print, and still photography. In 1985, McLeod received a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, and his U.C. Berkeley masters thesis film Four Corners won a student Academy Award in 1983. Toby has been working with indigenous communities as a filmmaker, journalist and photographer for twenty-seven years. He lives with his wife, writer and filmmaker Jessica Abbe, in La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco.
"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
— John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day