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Following four Lakota families over three years, Homeland explores what it takes for the Lakota community to build a better future in the face of tribal and government corruption, scarce housing, unemployment, and alcoholism. Intimate interviews with a spiritual leader, a grandmother, an artist, and a community activist from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation reveal how each survives through family ties, cultural tradition, humor, and a palpable yearning for self-reliance and personal freedom.
Premiere: PBS, November 16, 2000 at 10 PM
"HOMELAND is an engaging, thought-provoking portrait of Native Americans determined to hold onto Indian ways...a rare and heartfelt cinema verite of Lakota families eager to share their lives."
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival
"This definitely is a 'must see' for every Native person. It would be nice if it were required viewing for every American."
- The Independent Native Journal
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Best Short Documentary, Nashville Independent Film Festival
[2000]
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Audience Award for Documentary, AFI Film Festival
[2000]
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Best Instrumental Recording, Native American Music Awards
[2001]
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Best Feature Documentary, Fargo Film Festival
[2002]
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