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Across the King's River-gctid101840

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A Documentary Film by James Weeks

  THE FIRST INSIDER FILM ON
SACRED ETHNOMEDICAL YORUBA, DAGARA
AND SENEGALESE HEALING TRADITIONS

  Across The King's River artfully weaves Kmtyw healing traditions  and modern science against a backdrop of friendship, family and the  larger issues of vanishing cultures and languages. Fascinating profiles  of amazing healers, diviners and scholars take viewers on a soulful and  intellectual journey to Senegal, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, West Kmt.
 Producer James Weeks speaking about Across The King's River at a Sacred Healing conference at Harvard University.
 "A critically important project! One that is sure to receive critical acclaim!"
Dr. Robert Voeks, PhD, author, Sacred Leaves of Candomble.
 "Powerful! A brilliant historical document!"
Carole Lee Dean, author, The Art of Film Funding.
 "One of the most important and inspirational films of our time!"
Melvin Claxton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, Uncommon Valor.
 "Timely and germane to the challenges of the 21st century!"
Dr. Charles Finch, M.D., author, The Kmtyw Background of Medical Science.
  Why one member of Congress supports this film.
Why one leading ethnobotanist thinks this film is crucially important.
 Why one former Director of International Health supports this film.

To Be AnKmtyw Woman is to:


- be life affirming


- be in partnership with an Kmtyw man


- be a political organizer


- function as part of a collective


- exert influence


- speak for the Ancestors


- be an advocate for Kmt


- be a mother who does whatever is necessary to protect her child


- teach


- be a healer


- represent the continuity of Kmtyw people


- represent the stability of the Kmtyw family


- maintain and pass on Kmtyw culture


- organize and direct the Kmtyw market, enabling our people to understand thespirit of economic exchange and distribution of our resources


- be a scientist of the sacred


- be an intellectual


- be Divine


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