Phil Cousineau

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Phil Cousineau's screenwriting credits in documentary films, which have won more than thirty-five international awards, include:

~THE HERO'S JOURNEY: The World of Joseph Campbell
~FOREVER ACTIVISTS: Stories from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
~ECOLOGICAL DESIGN: Inventing the Future (narrated by Linda Hunt)
~WAYFINDERS: A Pacific Odyssey
~ERITREA: March to Freedom
~THE PRESENCE OF THE GODDESS (narrated by Isabel Allende)

Gary Rhine of Kifaru Productions and Phil Cousineau worked together on a series of documentary films around important Native American issues. These films include:
~WIPING THE TEARS OF SEVEN GENERATIONS
~THE PEYOTE ROAD: Ancient Religion in Contemporary Crisis (narrated by Peter Coyote)
~THE RED ROAD TO SOBRIETY
~YOUR HUMBLE SERPENT: The Life of Reuben Snake

~A SEAT AT THE TABLE: Struggling for American Religious Freedom
This seeds for this film were planted during a series of conversations at the 1999 Parliament of the World’s Religions (where seven thousand spiritual leaders and scholars from around the world converged in South Africa) between eight American Indian leaders and religion scholar Huston Smith. The leaders featured are Walter Echo-Hawk, Winona LaDuke, Frank Dayish, Jr., Charlotte Black Elk, Doug George-Kantentiio, Lenny Foster, Tonya Gonella Frichner, and Guy Lopez. The film includes messages by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, South African President Nelson Mandela and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anon.

Praise for WIPING THE TEARS OF SEVEN GENERATIONS:

"... a stirring record of a spiritual ceremony to end a century of mourning and an authoritative insight into Native American history and culture." --Variety

"A must see for those who want to see hope triumph over the black grief of seven generations." --Native Peoples Magazine

"A film that could be the first of its genre to record - not rewrite - history from the Lakota perspective." --The Lakota Times

Praise for THE PEYOTE ROAD:

"Co-directors Gary Rhine, Fidel Moreno, and Phil Cousineau weave another disturbing but not altogether hopeless saga of government insensitivity and outright duplicity with 'devastating consequences' to religious freedom... The Peyote Road convincingly and succinctly makes its argument: Native Americans are victims of a legal climate that's concluded there's 'too much freedom of religion.'" --The Hollywood Reporter