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Healing Spirit
199357 min 11 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Hubert Schuurman
Production: Jennifer TorranceBarbara Janes
Script: Hubert Schuurman
Spiritual healing and medical technology connect in this compelling video about the human journey through life and death, illness and healing. Featuring Drs Bernie Siegel, Deepak Chopra and Marion Woodman, Healing Spirit shows women and men suffering from ailments as diverse as depression and AIDS, and physicians practising both conventional and holistic medicine. Their testimony challenges our comfortable definitions of health and healing, presenting us with powerful new alternatives.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Alternative, Holistic and Indigenous Medicine
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Healing
Credits
- director
- Hubert Schuurman
- script
- Hubert Schuurman
- producer
- Jennifer Torrance
- executive producer
- Barbara Janes
- cinematography
- Kent Nason
- animation camera
- Martin Rose
- sound
- John Martin
- editing
- Janice Brown
- sound editing
- Gael MacLean
- re-recording
- Paul Sharpe
- Bill Sheppard
- narrator
- Iris Quinn
- music
- Bruce Ruddell
Awards
- Gold Apple AwardNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Bronze Plaque Award International Film and Video Festival