Lucy Walker Directing Ibogaine Feature Doc ‘Of Night & Light’, Lands Secret Tribeca Slot
10.05.2023 - 15:25
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EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Walker, the British filmmaker behind Oscar-nominated docs Waste Land and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, has lined up her latest feature doc.
Walker is directing Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine and the film has landed a secret slot at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine tells the astounding unknown story of what might be the aha scientific breakthrough moment of our generation.
Back in 1962 a teenage psychonaut in New York City named Howard Lotsof experimented with an obscure psychedelic from the root bark of a West African shrub and recognized its unique therapeutic potential. Together with his African-American wife Norma, a pair of outsider NYU film students, they dedicated their lives to getting science and government to research it, convinced that it would be of great medicinal benefit, despite it sounding too good to be true, like the very definition of snake oil, and being written off as con artists.
But they ultimately triumph and ibogaine has helped emancipate over one hundred thousand people from opiate addiction and also got the attention of US special forces veterans, who have been experiencing dramatic relief from a spectrum of addictions and mental health problems and physical disabilities, triggering jaw dropping new research about to be published that suggests that ibogaine is the most powerful therapeutic ever observed for the human central nervous system.
It is Walker’s latest trip into the psychedelics space after directing and exec producing Netflix four-part series How To Change Your Mind adapted from the New York Times bestseller by Michael Pollan.
UTA is selling the film out of Tribeca.
It will premiere in the
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