O FACTUAL E O PESSOAL com Gabi Veras
Local: VC304 (Victoria College)
Time: 3pm
Talk in Portuguese
Healers is a documentary film about Gabi Veras’ personal journey exploring the important role of the female healers in rural and remote areas of northeast Brazil.
Assista Healers aqui:https://vimeo.com/69288808
Healers (2013) Directed by Gabi Veras
This story began in 2010 with Veras’ journalistic project concerning the impact of female leaders in poor rural communities in north-east Brazil. This professional experience soon became a personal journey about hope, a promise, and a re-encounter. Healers tells the story of a woman known as Dona Josefa who has been a health care worker, midwife, and community leader for over 50 years. Besides taking care of villagers, she can deeply affect people who cross her path, like filmmaker Gabi Veras—who had a dream of becoming a mother. After a promise made by Veras, the director returns to Sertão—Brazil’s most neglected area—and discovers the world of herbal medicine. Healers shows that despite the lack of support from authorities in these remote areas, traditional medicines which combine prayer with the use of herbs are slowly making governments realize their power. Today, some communities in the region that have been served by these herbal-based treatments have shown themselves to have efficient, trustworthy, and economical systems of alternative medicine. Intrigued by such an effective way of promoting health, Veras takes the viewer on her personal journey, uncovering an unconventional world that exists and functions thanks to women like Dona Josefa.
Gabi Veras
Born on a tropical island, Gabi Veras has spent more than 15 years in newsrooms both in Brazil and Canada. She has been a freelance journalist for CBC Radio and Radio Canada International. Most recently she was as a producer for CBC Newsworld, and also for OMNI Television in Toronto and Calgary. Telling compelling human stories through documentary has always been her passion. In 2001, she co-produced Avi Lev’s documentary We Are Samba.
No comments:
Post a Comment