In the Light of Reverence

Christopher “Toby” McLeod has produced three previous hour-long broadcast documentaries, including The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?, which won a Student Academy Award in 1983, Downwind/Downstream, and Poison in the Rockies. His first film was The Cracking Of Glen Canyon Damn— With Edward Abbey And Earth First! McLeod’s credits also include the shorts Voices of the Land and A Thousand Years of Ceremony, the latter a 40-minute profile of Wintu healer Florence Jones meant for the use of the Wintu community. McLeod works as a journalist and photographer as well as filmmaker. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Malinda Maynor is a Lumbee Indian from North Carolina who has made several shorts about her native culture that have aired on public television. A graduate of Harvard University and of Stanford University’s documentary masters program, Maynor is a recipient of a 2001 Rockefeller Film and Video Fellowship and is pursuing a Ph.D in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.