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Kau Faito'o: Traditional Healers of Tonga

Director: Melinda Ostraff

  • Wynn Hougaard: Film Editor
  • Melinda Ostraff: Director, Writer, Producer
  • Joseph Ostraff: Writer, Producer
  • Michael Van Wagenen: Writer
  • Brian Wilcox: Cinematographer
Shows the ancient traditional art form of healing, but tries to capture the essence of being a traditional healer in an ever changing environment. Traditional healers are shown collecting, preparing and administering herbal remedies that they have passed down from generation to generation. Healers discuss where, why and how they gained their knowledge and why they choose to carry on age old customs and practices despite [t]he fact that Tonga is becoming a nation increasingly dependent on western medicine
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DVDMM 404
1999
Mormon Contributor(s)
Narrator, Loa Niumeitolu Saafi
Documentary Film; No Obvious Mormon Elements
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