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Title:Mama Irene : healer of the Andes / a film by Bettina Ehrhardt and Elisabeth Möhlmann.
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Publication:[New York, NY] : Blaze A Path, [2022]
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Copyright notice date: ©2002
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 71 min.)) : sound, color
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Links:Streaming video
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Streaming video file.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2022.
The film was made possible with the support of White Feather Farm Foundation (US), Effects or Films (Mexico).
Chiefly in Quechua with some English; English subtitles.
Description based on videodisc record, closing credits, and IMDb entry (viewed 15 December 2022).
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Summary:This is a film about Mama Irene, a remarkable 86-year-old woman Shaman (healer) from Peru who draws upon indigenous knowledge and traditions in danger of being lost forever. Yet her craft is based primarily on her own intuition: "Spirits have told me in my dreams how to proceed." The documentary follows Mama Irene in her everyday life, highlighting her healing methods and passion to serve each patient who knocks on her door: from local women who travel hours or days by foot through the Andes, to a medical doctor from India seeking a cure for illness that Western medicine had failed to help.
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Variant and related titles:Healer of the Andes
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Credits:A Blaze A Path production ; written and directed by Bettina Ehrhardt and Elisabeth Möhlmann ; edited by Monika Abspacher ; directors of photography, Franz Zavala and Tenmy Johan Carrasco Monzón ; original music by Jim Papoulis ; produced by Elisabeth Möhlmann ; co-produced by Torsten Bönnhoff ; associate producer, Cristina Ramiro ; contributing producer, Sarah Johnson, P.G.A. ; co-production company, Digital Images GMbH ; additional director, film shoot 2019, Angana Jhaveri ; additional cinematography, Efrain Zegarra Onofre ; produced in association with The Center for Independent Documentary.
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Performers:Main protagonists: Mama Irene (Juana Irene Contreras Pumayalli) and 9 others ; additional appearances: Edith Huaman and 9 others.
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Subjects:Contreras Pumayalli, Juana Irene.
Women shamans--Peru--Biography.
Women healers--Peru--Biography.
Quechua women--Peru--Biography.
Traditional medicine--Andes.
Traditional medicine--Peru.
Alternative medicine--Andes.
Alternative medicine--Peru.
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Genre/Form:Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Internet videos.
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Also listed under:Ehrhardt, Bettina, film director, screenwriter.
Möhlmann, Elisabeth, film director, film producer, screenwriter.
Abspacher, Monika, editor of moving image work.
Bönnhoff, Torsten, film producer.
Carrasco Monzón, Tenmy Johan, director of photography.
Jhaveri, Angana, contributor.
Johnson, Sarah E. (Producer), contributor.
Papoulis, Jim, composer.
Ramiro, Cristina, contributor.
Zavala, Franz, director of photography.
Zegarra Onofre, Efrain, contributor.
Contreras Pumayalli, Juana Irene, on-screen participant.
Huaman, Edith, on-screen participant.
Blaze A Path (Firm), production company.
Center for Independent Documentary, contributor.
Digital Images (Firm), production company.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16490724