Jed Riffe is an award-winning independent filmmaker, broadcast journalist and digital media producer. Jed is the senior producer for Jed Riffe Films, LLC. Over the last 25 years, Riffe has produced numerous highly acclaimed documentary and dramatic films and interactive projects for PBS, NHK-TV (Japan), cable, international broadcast and the web. He is currently developing a four hour series titled BEYOND THE DREAM: CALIFORNIA AND THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICA for PBS and the Rockefeller Foundation, and is in production on WAITING TO INHALE: DOCTORS, PATIENTS AND THE LAW, a documentary on the controversy over medical marijuana.

He produced and directed ISHI, THE LAST YAHI a dramatic documentary film, written by Anne Makepeace, which won six Best Documentary awards, was released theatrically in 35mm, nominated for a national EMMY and broadcast on The American Experience. National Geographic International Television is currently broadcasting the film world-wide.

Riffe's most recent documentary film WHO OWNS THE PAST?, was broadcast nationally in the fall of 2001 on the PBS series Independent Lens. The dramatic investigative film tells the story of the American Indian struggle for control of their ancestral remains. Funded by PBS and CPB, Riffe produced an interactive website to accompany the film's broadcast. Riffe has produced three HDTV projects including THE HEART OF THE POSSIBLE, a feature length, dramatic motion picture now in post-production. The two other HDTV projects are the documentary series BECOMING HUMAN on the oldest cave art in the world, and AMAZONIA: MOTHER OF NATURE, a Brazilian-American co-production on the cultures along the Rio Negro.

In 2000, Riffe produced an enhanced TV prototype for CPB's TV of Tomorrow Digital Initiative. That same year he also produced and co-directed: ROOTS OF BEAUTY for the National Museum of the American Indian. Early in his career he produced CALIFORNIA: A PLACE A PEOPLE, A DREAM an interactive history of California's diverse populations for the Oakland Museum, and two PBS broadcast documentaries ROSEBUD TO DALLAS and PROMISE AND PRACTICE.