The Sacred Science
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Rating: 4.0/5 (2 votes cast)

For the eight seekers at the heart of this emotionally charged documentary redemption may lie in the mysterious depths of the Amazonian rain forest. Nicola Dale has Parkinson's Disease. Joel Davis suffers from type-II diabetes. Jean Orraca is seriously depressed. John Wood has prostate cancer. They and the others journey to South America in the hope of getting well: traditional medicine men, employing methods that are thousands of years old, will treat them with a combination of local, plant-based remedies and native rituals.
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Crew:
  • Director:
    Nicholas Polizzi
  • Producers:
    Daniel Bailey
  • Producers:
    Nicholas J. Polizzi
Film Reviews:
  • "Captures the whole process beautifully... and the ambient sense of wonder in The Sacred Science is hard to resist. "
    Star/Denver Film Festival
  • "Entering the heart of healing in the heart of the Amazon, we find that saving the rainforest really does mean saving ourselves. "
    Mill Valley Film Festival
Film Festivals:
  • Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Starz/Denver Film Festival
  • Environmental Film Festival
  • Byron Bay International Film Festival