Oscar Miro-Quesada – Producer Oscar is an internationally respected maestro curandero, teacher, and founder of the Heart of the Healer Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated the preservation of indigenous wisdom world-wide. Among his many credits is a fellowship he conducted with OAS in ethnopsychology led to the development of a mental health satellite program that conjoined native folk healers with national public health care systems in Peru. Recently, he was invited to the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. In addition to his teaching he has appeared in various programs that have been featured on the Discovery Channel, CNN, A&E, and Univision.
Barbara Seidl - Producer Producer/director Barbara Seidl has directed and produced more than a dozen broadcast documentaries for public television, including her 2003 Telly Award-winning short Singing our Souls. As senior producer for an international documentary series, she directed crews in more than 10 countries on four continents. She co-produced a 10-part PBS series for the Annenberg Foundation, serving three years as a staff writer/ producer for a major CBS affiliate, and most recently line-producing a History Channel special. Seidl has taught film at the graduate level and currently is a president of the board of Women in Film & Video/New England
Antoni Ansarov – Director Antoni is an accomplished filmmaker who has worked on numerous short documentaries throughout the world, including India, Nepal, Tibet, Macedonia, Peru, Guatemala, Mali, and the Hopi and Navajo reservations in the US. He has worked independently as well as for Projectguggenheim. Some of his highlights include Mask and Marionettes in the War Against AIDS, a documentary using traditional arts for AIDS prevention in Africa, and Art of Compassion, a film on Jewish and Palestinian children creating art together in Israel.
Jason Blaesing – Script, Research Jason is a long-time student of curanderismo, having apprenticed closely with Oscar Miro-Quesada and other healers for over 10 years, participating in traditional ceremony and ritual. He has traveled extensively in Peru, engaging with healers from varying lineages and communities. From his experience he has gained an intimate knowledge of the practice of curanderismo and is dedicated to its preservation and continuance.
FireWind Productions – Post-production FireWind Productions has specialized in the post-production of documentary films in New York since 1994. Their services include sound design, picture editing, original scoring, sound mix, and 3D animation effects. They have received numerous awards, including First Prize at the Ismailia Festival-Egypt in sound design and mix for Beriket, a documentary featuring pagan rituals and ceremonies from rural Macedonia, and three Mobil NYU Awards for sound design, original music, and mix. Calling the Ghosts on HBO, a film for which they worked, received two Emmys. Prodigies and Masters of Tomorrow, a documentary and production of theirs, aired recently on PBS.
Tito La Rosa – Music Tito is an Andean intuitive sound healer and master musician of pre-Columbian and Inka wind instruments, as well as an acclaimed presenter on Traditional Instruments in Contemporary Music, including the Smithsonian Institute’s Heart and Hands: Musical Instrument Makers of America. Tito was a featured artist on Kitaro’s 2001 Grammy Award CD Thinking of You. His own 2002 CD, The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor was nominated for a Native American Music Award as Best World Music Recording.
Duke Bojadziev – Music Based in New York City, Duke is a music composer and producer. His recent film-work includes arranging and orchestrating on Hell by Academy Award winner Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) and music cues for the internationally acclaimed documentary Shortcut to Nirvana by Nick Day and Maurizio Banazzo. He has worked in the studio with David Byrne, Cyndi Lauper, and Angela McCluskey, produced two solo albums, and his music has been featured on compilations with world-wide distribution.