Maangamizi: The Ancient One

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Maangamizi: The Ancient One
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Directed by Martin Mhando
Ron Mulvihill
Written by Queenae Taylor Mulvihill
Produced byExecutive producer Jonathan Demme
Martin Mhando
Queenae Taylor Mulvihill
Ron Mulvihill
Starring Barbara O. Jones
Amandina Lihamba
Samahani Kejeri
Waigwa Wachira
Cinematography Willie E. Dawkins
Edited by Jimmy Ling
Music by Cyril Neville
Distributed by Gris-Gris Films Inc.
Release date
  • February 18, 2001 (2001-02-18)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesTanzania
United States
LanguagesSwahili
English

Maangamizi: The Ancient One is a 2001 American / Tanzanian drama film directed by Martin Mhando and Ron Mulvihill and executive produced by Jonathan Demme. It premiered at the Pan African Film Festival and has played in over 55 Film Festivals worldwide. It was the Tanzanian submission for the Academy Award for Best foreign language film, the first film to be submitted from that country, but was not nominated.

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Plot

Dr. Asira is faced with the contrast between Western medicine and traditional East African spirituality when a woman, Samehe, who is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, claims to be under the care of Maangamizi, a mysterious ancestor / shaman. [1]

Cast

Awards

Maangamizi: The Ancient One won the Golden Dhow at the 1998 Zanzibar International Film Festival. [2] [ clarification needed ] It won the Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature at the Newark Black Film Festival. [3]

See also

References

  1. Deming, Mark. "Maangamizi: The Ancient One". Allmovie . Retrieved 2007-07-13.
  2. "Awards for Maangamizi: The Ancient One". Internet Movie Database . Retrieved 2007-07-13.
  3. "FILM FESTIVALS - AWARDS AND OFFICIAL SELECTIONS". Gris Gris Films. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-07-13.

Further reading

Copyright Gris Gris Films, 2006; Publishing: Lulu Enterprises Inc.; ISBN   978-1-4116-8991-6


  1. Basaran, Aylin (November 2022). "Filmic Therapeutic Encounters and Resistance: Silence, Forgetting, and Guilt in the Face of Historical Violence". Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 62 (6): 838–852. doi: 10.1177/00221678211010013 . ISSN   0022-1678.