HAVC uses video, film, photography, and music to raise awareness about environmental and social justice issues. HAVC believes that non-violent direct action and civil disobedience are more effective when people know what is happening and why. Images from the HAVC film archive are used worldwide by media, lawyers, and activists.

HAVC's films include Fire in the Eyes, LUNA: The Stafford Giant Tree-Sit, and most recently Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance!, a documentary film about the radical activists who occupy trees to protect them, often at risk to the tree-sitters' lives. HAVC has toured the country showing the film at 55 locations and continued new video documentation of the environmental and social change movements.


January, 2001 Update
Headwaters Action Video Collective (HAVC) in association with Earth Films and Tobermory Studios, is a direct-action video response/documentary production team. Earth Films is a web-based project distributing HAVC's videos and other video activists' work. It helps produce content for the new "Direct Action News Reel" on Free Speech TV's twenty-four-hour satellite channel (DISH network). We plan to produce public service announcements (PSAs) and video press releases (VPRs). We have provided video and web support for the "Striptease to Save the Trees" direct actions and to the Rainbow Ridge Free State in the Mattole. We post photos from breaking-news events to www.earthfilms.org. (Reuters downloaded our image of the Luna cut the day the news broke.) (read more)


Contact Information

Email: info@havc.org
Web Site: www.havc.org
Phone: (707) 925-0021
P.O. Box 2198 Redway, CA 95560