Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
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“Deep and poignant wisdom.”
— Gabor Maté

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June 3, 2025

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About the film

The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars left by colonization on lands and people, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom.

Entrusted with medicine stories, we grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, our own fragmentation and the culture of separation. The film reveals how modernity has severed our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption, economic growth, and individual happiness. Drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life and we begin to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.

Knowledge Holders

Our Guides

Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and is devoted to supporting the next generations in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
Pat McCabeMother, Grandmother, Activist, Ceremonial leader, Diné
Pat McCabe
Tiokasin has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. The Founder, Host and Executive Producer for 28 years of First Voices Radio in New York City and Seattle/Olympia, Washington, he received many awards including a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 and an award for New York City’s Peacemaker of the Year in 2013. He is a “perfectly flawed human being."
Tiokasin GhosthorseFounder of First Voices Radio, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Born and raised in a remote village of Northeast Greenland, Rakel declared she would be a shaman when she was four. In 2012, she immersed herself in nature and the teachings from Silap Aappaa (the other worlds) to reconnect with the wisdom of her ancestors. By 2019, Rakel was formally initiated into the ancient tradition as an angakoq (medicine woman). She helps individuals rediscover their souls and restore harmony within themselves and the world.
Aviaja Rakel Sani-muinaq KristiansenInuk Shaman, Ittoqqortoormeer,
Nunarput (Greenland)
Aviaja Rakel Sani-muinaq Kristiansen
Iya is a trauma specialist with ancestors in West Africa, Barbados, Jamaica and the Bahamas who brings over two decades of experience in mental health, social services, and community advocacy. She empowers individuals and communities to break cycles of trauma through healing practices which emphasize reconnection with cultural roots. She is a speaker and educator with a mission to facilitate re-culturing and healing of indigenous people all over the world.
Iya AffoFounder of Heal Historical Trauma, Speaker & Educator
Iya Affo
Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet. Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Now living between India and the United States, Bayo is a father of Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi. He is married to EJ, his dear life-partner of Indian descent.
Bayo AkomolafeYoruba Philosopher, Writer
Bayo Akomolafe
Chief Oluwo Obafemi Fayemi Epega is a world-renowned Babalawo and the founder of O.I.D.S.I. (Obafemi Institute for the Divine & Universal Study of Ifa). He was initiated as a priest of Obatala in 2004, and received his Tefa in 2005. He strongly believes that the restoration and preservation of African divine sciences and traditions can restore psychological balance and personal empowerment to all people. A lecturer, teacher and healer and the author of Who is Sambo?.
Obafemi FayemiFounder of Obafemi Institute for the Divine Study of Ifa
Obafemi Fayemi

Carrying the Vision

The Crew

Born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, and fascinated with exploring life’s big questions, Zaya feels most at home in nature and, increasingly, within herself. Her deepest passion is bringing spiritual wisdom in service of all life. She has produced and directed several award-winning documentaries including The Wisdom of Trauma, The Art of Life, Rays of the Absolute, and Where Olive Trees Weep.
Zaya Ralitza BenazzoProducer / Director
Zaya Ralitza Benazzo
Born and raised in Genova, Italy with deep ancestral roots in Piemonte, Maurizio is devoted to making visible the profound interconnectedness between all forms of life and the ancestral wisdom that flows through it. He and Zaya co-founded SAND, and together they have since co-directed, produced and independently distributed several award-winning documentaries.
Maurizio BenazzoProducer / Director
Maurizio Benazzo
Nika is a cinematographer born in Tbilisi, Georgia and raised in Toronto, Canada. After making his first film, Nika dived deep into the world of electronic music events. He joined some of the world's most renowned DJs on tour, creating music videos and after-movies for them. He also engaged in meaningful work with NGOs around the world.
Nickoloz KachibaiaDirector of Photography
Nickoloz Kachibaia
Caroline's natural talents cover three areas: science, art and drama. After receiving her Masters in Science, Caroline found unlikely doors opening for her with the BBC Natural History Unit and the BBC World Service. By the age of 28, she had filmed in over 30 countries and even had her feature documentary, an exposé on China’s Energy Industry, shut down by top government officials.
CAROLINE CAMPBELLDirector OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
CAROLINE CAMPBELL
Finley is a film and television editor, producer, and director from Toronto, Canada. Having cut thousands of commercial spots by the age of seventeen and his first feature at eighteen, Finley practically grew up in a post-house. Working with countless producers in Canada, the US, and Europe, Finley has amassed innumerable credits at a very young age. His most recent works include The Case Against Cosby, Life Below Zero: Canada, and In Their Own Words.
Finley MacNeilEditor / Producer
Finley MacNeil
Armand is a French Moroccan composer born in Jerusalem. He was imbued early with the sounds of instruments considered exotic at the time. He co-founded the record label Long Distance, dedicated to traditional music, and opened a museum in Paris for his huge collection of instruments from all over the world. Armand created Leylâ & Majnûn, an internationally acclaimed oratorio for the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco.
Armand AmarComposer
Armand Amar
Jeanric grew up on the shores of Algeria where he developed a passion for the water element. His strong scientific background and his Kashmir Tantric Shaivism spiritual path directed him to become, pell-mell, an aquatic bodyworker, a telecommunication engineer, a pool specialist, a venture capitalist, and more. He helps with sound recording, writing, translating, editing, financial organization and human resources.
Jeanric MellerAssociate Producer
Jeanric Meller
Alexis is an Emmy award-winning producer and a video editor with over a decade of experience working for companies like NBC, CBS, ESPN and Netflix. She graduated from Brown University with a dual degree in Film and Theatre. When Alexis is not working on film and television, she enjoys performing with her band, Otaku Ongaku, and querying agents with her fantasy trilogy, The Shadow.
Alexis AurigemmaPost-Production Supervisor
Alexis Aurigemma
A mother, educator, and elder-in-becoming from a loud and loving Italian family, Lisa values reciprocity, possibility, compassion and transformation. She believes in a world that works for everyone and remains committed to living in integrity and connection. She was instrumental in the physical organization of the journey.
Lisa Breschi Location Producer
Lisa Breschi
Yasen was born in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley, where his early fascination with computers and visual storytelling shaped his unique approach to filmmaking. His professional path has included work as a cinematographer at Brown Barn Films, sound recordist and assistant camera for SAND, and production assistant on the feature film Under The Lights.
Yasen StoevCamera Assistant
Yasen Stoev
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Kinship,
Community,
and Belonging

The Vision

The film exposes the ongoing efforts to erase indigenous cultures and the resulting cycles of intergenerational trauma. It contrasts the Western framework of human dominance over Earth, and God’s rule over humans, with indigenous, earth-based, animist spirituality. Moving visually in a nonlinear, lyrical way, it looks beyond binaries to uncover resilience emerging from trauma and traces the roots of healing in the recovery of culture, land, and ceremonies. Sowing wisdom through the stories it tells, it pits the madness of colonialism against the resilience of indigenous spirit.

There are no words for how beautiful and meaningful this film is. Really, I don't have words. Resonating, heartbreaking, maddening, stunning, heart-filling, it makes me want to make an even bigger difference in the world.
—Stephanie H
—Stephanie H
This is ultimately beautiful, mesmerizing, and engaging a deeper understanding of Earth's respect for all life, including humans.
—Tiokasin G
—Tiokasin G
When colonization hit Mother Earth, it changed all these different people simultaneously. It became a global family issue. We need a call for the global family to come together. This film, in an almost preverbal or preconscious way, is making that call.
—Pat M
—Pat M
I am in awe, and still digesting everything. This is the way it should be done, transformation through honest shadow work. The film is about souls meeting and showing the way through ceremony. Blessings from me and the ancestors.
—Rakel K
The music is wonderful. The cinematography is a dream, and the content is so very moving, fascinating and so important in this time of rampant settler-colonialism, occupation and war. Bless your hearts!
—Rae M
Watching felt like sitting in sacred ceremony where time slows, the Earth speaks, and something ancient stirs within your bones. The Eternal Song is more than a film. It’s a prayer. A call. A remembering and remindering.
—Carlie A
I am speechless! What a magnificent film you have made. I hope it is seen far and wide. The message is timeless and so timely and the cinematography is stunning. Thanks for sharing it with us.
—Alison T
What a work of art! It puts many, many exclamation marks on our common message. We are the land, we are the water, we are inseparable.
—Charlene E
What a MASTERPIECE ancient tears were free flowing from our souls multiple times during the movie! It is beyond, moving and wow the imagery, innate wisdom brought forth.
— Yasemin B
All I want to say is: your film is absolutely STUNNING. Bravo!!! Haunting, powerful, elegant and brutal. I was blown away. It was BREATHTAKING.
— Rachael K
What beautiful, astonishing, bold and generous work you two continue to do. We are so lucky to have it shared with us. Just the concept alone of The Eternal Song would make it a great film, but to have it done with such a high degree of artistry makes it truly extraordinary. So exquisitely filmed and edited. And I especially loved the music, that was out-of-this-world good!
— Michael B
THANK you so very much! I am overwhelmed by the beauty and vulnerability of this powerful documentary. It reminds me of the famous line from Dostoyevsky’s Idiot: “Is it true that beauty will save the world?” What a beautiful poem you have created! What a great piece of art and what a powerful step towards healing! One of the best documentaries I have ever watched.
— G. S.
BEAUTIFUL! I have never felt so seen and so understood by watching this kind of documentary/movie. So much love is overflowing from within by being acknowledged of who we really are as Indigenous People. Amazing! I couldn’t stop crying. It is a sacred movie. It is so powerful. I love it. So incredibly grateful to be alive and knowing that there are people like Aviaja Rakel Qujanaq and beyond.
— Ivalo N.
Bold, authentic, and timely.
— Dr. Sekagya Yahaya Hills
The Eternal Song is a rare and necessary film—one that steps back to let the world’s Indigenous people speak directly to the viewer, in their own words and languages. With no outside narration, no white analysts, and no imposed frameworks, it practices cinematic listening. A profound and poetic deconstruction of colonialism, and a testament to survival, memory, and cultural resurgence.
—Mark Achbar, filmmaker
(The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent)
The Eternal Song is a film of multi-layered meaning—some explicit, some implicit. Rather than imposing an agenda, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo allowed the film to create itself by listening and being-with the land and Indigenous people. This is not an anthropological study, but a relational unfolding where trust made visible what is rarely seen. Without speaking of climate change, the film shows the melting ice, the cracking soil, the forests falling—juxtaposed with Indigenous wisdom amidst overdevelopment. It acknowledges pain and devastation, even genocide, yet moves through grief in ceremony and dance—moving forward.
—Fariba B, PhD, Artist, Dream Researcher
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SAND is a nonprofit organization under section 501.c.3 of the US tax code. Its headquarters are on Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo Land in Sebastopol, CA. We thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.

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In a time when disconnection, overwhelm, and uncertainty run deep, The Eternal Song invites you to return to what matters most.

This is more than a film. It’s an invitation into a space of remembrance, ceremony, and collective healing guided by Indigenous Elders and wisdom holders from around the world.

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