about the film
'What's the value of a cure for AIDS that grew in a forest you cut down last week?' - Dr. Dennis McKenna
'I'm not going to take to the grave everything I have learned, because I know humanity will need it.' - Don Juan Tangoa Paima
This short documentary explores the topic of traditional plant medicine from two perspectives - that of Don Juan Tangoa Paima, a curandero who works with Ayahuasca medicine in the Peruvian Amazon and through the research of Dr. Dennis McKenna, an American Ethnobotanist looking for new plant compounds to treat schizophrenia and dementia. The story takes viewers from jungle to lab asking what is the value of undiscovered knowledge in the worlds most biodiverse biomes, and what's at stake if we allow those precious resources to be lost.
Director's Bio
Sarah Hutt is an author, director, and documentary producer, her EMMY nominated work has appeared on VICELAND, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic Wild, MSNBC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and The History Channel, to name a few.
Her writing has made the NY Times Best Seller list and she is a Publisher's Weekly starred reviewed author of non-fiction books for children and young adults.
She is the owner of Cave Productions, a production company that offers content creation and story consulting services.
PAST SCREENINGS
Film Series: Indigenous Wisdom - A Solution for Modern Times
Saturday October 27th, 2018
Hamsa Studio, Ojai, CA
The Psychedelic Film Festival Presents:
A Double Feature
with Dennis McKenna and Robert Barnhart
Wednesday October 3, 2018 7:00-10:00pm
The Assemblage John Street
17 John Street, New York, NY
Elevate Symposium
SUNDAY 10th June 2018
Uetliberg, Zürich Switzerland
18:00 Talk and Screening with Dennis McKenna
Tickets by Donation
An Evening with Dennis McKenna: The Shaman and The Scientist
SATURDAY 16th June 2018 at 7 PM - 4 AM CDT
Talk with Dennis McKenna, Sarah Hutt, Charles Nichols
Gasa Gasa
4920 Freret St, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL:
Friday, February 23, 4:00-6:00pm
FOSS AUDITORIUM
American Mountaineering Center
710 10th Street
Golden, CO 80401
OFFICIAL PREMIERE PHILIP K DICK FILM FESTIVAL NYC
Saturday, February 24, 3 pm (BLOCK 6)
Village East Cinema
189 2nd Ave.
NY, NY 10003
(212) 529-6998
SPECIAL TALK AND Q&A WITH DENNIS McKENNA AFTER THE SCREENING:
THE SEARCH FOR NEW PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICINE IN THE AMAZON
Monday 2/26, 7:00pm, The Assemblage, NYC
A special Amazon Conservation Fundraiser at the Assemblage. Screening and talk with Mark Plotkin, Luis Eduardo Luna, and Dennis McKenna. Join us and raise money to protect our rainforest.
PHILADELPHIA ENVIRONMENTAL
FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, April 6, BLOCK 1, 5:30-7:30pm
Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
WATCH ONLINE IN APRIL
Watch the film for free in as part of Letters from the Field, the April 2018 Edition of Labocine, a digital magazine in collaboration with the IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL