About
A DOCUMENTARY FILM
Director: Carole Hart (Emmy & Peabody Award winner)
Narrator: Ashley Judd (2 Time Golden Globe nominee)
Music: Peter Buffett (Emmy winner)
Starring: The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
“Director Carole Hart’s For the Next 7 Generations is an inspiring and moving work that reveals the importance of indigenous knowledge for our own time. The grandmothers convey their message to the world with great dignity, eloquence, and authority.”
- Daniel Pinchbeck, Author of Breaking Open the Head and 2012: The Return of Quetzcoatl
For the Next 7 Generations documents the momentous journey of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, as they travel around the globe to promote world peace and share their indigenous ways of healing. Originating from all four corners, these 13 wise women elders, shamans and medicine women, first came together in 2004 at a historic gathering in Upstate New York. Motivated by their concern for our planet, they decided to form an alliance: The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. The film begins at their first gathering follows them to the Amazon rainforest, the mountains of Mexico, throughout North America, and to Dharamsala, India, for a private meeting with the Dalai Lama. Facing a world in crisis, the Grandmothers share with us their visions of healing and a call for change now, before it’s too late. Through their teachings, they are lighting a way to a peaceful, sustainable planet.
Since the film’s completion in September of 2009 it has been selected for eight festivals, including The Santa Fe Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Indigenous Documentary. It also won awards for Best of the Festival and Best Documentary at the First Annual Big Island Talking Circle Film Festival in Hilo Hawaii. After working together for five years, the Grandmothers have established a worldwide presence. In 2006 a book about them titled, “Grandmothers Council the World” was published, and has been translated into nine languages.