Austin Film Festival 2007

A Native American family plants industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. They put their hopes for a sustainable economy in hemp’s hardiness and a demand for its many products, from clothing to food. 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. Towfighnia’s documentary is guaranteed to make you angry and reconsider our nation’s policy towards the production of industrial hemp.