Nicolás Echevarría
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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The true story of sixteenth century Spanish explorer in the New World and his unusual experiences with the indigenous tribes.
María Sabina is a Mexican indian. She was born in 1894 according to the church records Huautla, Oaxaca. Huautla is inhabited by Mazatecan indians. They preserve the ancient religious ritual of eating mushrooms in nocturnal ceremonies. These are provided by a shaman. Shamanism has existed in Mexico since pre-Colombian times. María Sabina is a shaman. She uses mushrooms to communicate with tribal gods. R. Gordon Wasson discovered her in 1955. She has given rise to a new discipline: ethnomycology. (KG)
A portrait of the great Wixarika (Huichol) artist Santos de la Torre who lives in near anonymity in the Western Sierra Madre. (imdb)