British Columbia Environmental Film Festival

Biognosis

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The McKenna Academy’s BioGnosis project aims to renovate and digitize an immensely important collection of 150,000 biological specimens currently housed at the Herbarium of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru. The herbarium includes vital knowledge on how the indigenous people use the plants for healing. It is the McKenna Academy's vision to make this reservoir of knowledge and wisdom available for future generations. Biognosis, Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom, introduces the project and its custodians to the viewer and transports them to the heart of the jungle where the herbarium is currently housed and where ancestral plant wisdom is under threat.

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    33 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Canada
  • Director
    Greg Hemmings
  • Producer
    Elaine Shannon
  • Executive Producer
    Stephen Francis Foster, Greg Hemmings
  • Cast
    Dennis J. McKenna
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