The Return of Navajo Boy (2000)

52m
Running Time

January 28, 2000
Release Date

The Return of Navajo Boy (2000)

52m
Running Time

January 28, 2000
Release Date

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Plot.

An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, The Return of Navajo Boy is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. A powerful new epilogue (produced in 2008) shows how the film and Groundswell Educational Films outreach campaign create news and rally supporters including Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mandated a clean-up plan by the five agencies responsible for uranium contamination. Ironically, the US EPA's Comprehensive Five-Year Plan did not include Ms. Begay's backyard, until she travelled with this film to Washington, DC and screened it on Capitol Hill in September, 2008.

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Cast & Crew.

Lorenzo Begay

Lorenzo Begay

Narrator

Elsie Mae Cly Begay

Elsie Mae Cly Begay

Self

Jeff Spitz

Jeff Spitz

Director

Bill Kennedy

Bill Kennedy

Self

John Wayne Cly

John Wayne Cly

Self

Bennie Klain

Bennie Klain

Producer

Mark Eveslage

Mark Eveslage

Cinematographer

Sharon Karp

Sharon Karp

Editor

Details.

Release Date
January 28, 2000

Status
Released

Running Time
52m

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The Return of Navajo Boy (released in 2000) is a documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who live on their reservation. Through them, the film explores several longstanding issues among the Navajo and their relations with the United States government and corporations: environmental racism, media and political representation, off-reservation adoption, and denial of reparations for environmental illnesses due to uranium mining in Monument Valley, Utah, which was unregulated for decades. Bill Kennedy served as the film's executive producer; his late father had produced and directed the earlier silent film The Navajo Boy (1950s), which featured the Cly family.

In 2000, the film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. It has won numerous awards.

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