American tourists at SpiritQuest Sanctuary, a medicine lodge in Peru, share their thoughts about the traditional medicine ayahuasca, and their motivations for drinking it. Don Howard Lawler, founder of SpiritQuest, describes ayahuasca and its beneficial effects, as do the filmmakers themselves.

Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahu...
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...

Back in 2012 I had my very first Ayahuasca ceremony and, needless to say, I was terrified. But it en...
An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the Wes...

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decade...

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.

“El Río” aims to illustrate the unique relationship between the indigenous people of the Peruvian Am...

A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their ind...

Aya: Awakenings' is an experiential journey by journalist Rak Razam into the world and visions of ay...

Michael Wiese documents his 10-day ayahuasca retreat at a lodge in the Peruvian Amazon.
A portrait of Peruvian curandero Agustin Rivas-Vazques, revealed primarily through stationary-camera...

Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to...

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Y...

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of...
This documentary examines the traditions and subjective effects of ayahuasca drinking, primarily fro...
Documentary recorded on a family trip to Chancay in July 2024. Edited in April 2025.
Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who w...