Toby McLeod

Toby McLeod has been project director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project since 1984. In 2013, he completed the four-part series Standing on Sacred Ground, which aired on PBS in 2015. McLeod produced and directed In the Light of Reverence for PBS’s POV in 2001. His other award-winning, PBS documentaries include: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? (1983) and NOVA: Poison in the Rockies (1990). McLeod has a master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley, a B.A. in History from Yale, and received a Student Academy Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. He’s been working with Indigenous communities as a filmmaker, journalist, and photographer since 1977.