Sachamama Screening from Johannes Orthmayr on Vimeo.

4 my people!
I wish u a merry x mas! Come and watch the first official screening of my movie "Sachamama" Sunday 19th of decembre 2010 in Trier Saartstreet 27.
Much love xxx

Every end has its beginning!

When I first had the idea of shooting this documentary Sachamama, it was a tiny little thought. But more and more this little flame started to grow until now to a big barnfire. What I learned about this project was not only about myself during the work with the plants and my travels, more it was the fact, that when you are chasing an idea and you don´t stop believe in the final result of it ... then one day the little idea becomes reality. Again I want to thank to everyone who was involved in this project! Soon you will hear about some promotional previews (hopefully on a lot of screens).

Thank u

Johannes Orthmayr

The Valiant Little Tailor

I say "Hey" sitting in my chair at the AVID Studio cutting loads of footage! Like Wade Martin once said "Happy days!" Anyway I had a great time here in Frankfurt with all these nice people arround me.

Finishing move !

Here I am,
back in Germany since 2 weeks now I slowly get back into "Life". Actualy I am situated in Frankfurt where I will finish my documentary. Thanks to Gehrisch & Krack Filmprodutions AG I am working on an AVID unity, which will give my movie the "final touch". I recommend you to visit their new website (www.gk-film.com). I hope everyone is fine, enjoying this amazing summer-heat.
Big kiss Johi

Sachamama Trailer

Sachamama Trailer from Johannes Orthmayr on Vimeo.

Enjoy my first footage collection of the Sachamama documentary!

Traditional Ayahuasca picking

Here I filmed the traditional collection of Ayahuasca.

El Maestro

Interview with Franciscos 99 years old teacher.

Shooting in Tamanco

Interview set near Tamanco, where Francisco lived the First 6 years of his life and where he was iniciated by his grandmother Trinidad, to start the apprenticeship as a schaman.

It is done!

Hola chicos,
finally it´s done I went through my filming process in Iquitos during the last month, and I just can´t realize for the moment all that was happening out there in the rainforest. Just for now I am feeling very peaceful and balanced, because the first big part of my project passed on so well. I shot 20 hours of film during my stay in Sachamama and the whole thing got in the and a new touch, that I never thougt of before. Aditional to my documentary work about the schamanic work of Francisco Montes and Rachel Willay, it was offered to me to speek to different people about their experiences with the plants, and also we visited with Francisco for the first time since he was 6 years old, his hometown Tamanco. This was a new fact giving the film a new direction about all the cultural background and its changement, which is happening right now in Peru and all over the globe. I am fine backuping the video material here in Lima. Within the next days I´ll send all the equipement home and start back on traveling further north, where the waves are waiting for me. A peaceful and friendly smile to everyone of you!
Juancito
P.S.: Within the next week you will see the first movie pictures here on my blog!

The Idea

The standart way of a design student at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier, is to graduate after 9 or 10 semestres. After the 5th or 6th semestre you normally go out of Trier for an apprenticeship in an advertising agency, or an external semestre on a partner university somewhere arround the globe. When I heared that you also can do your own project, I had the idea of shooting a film about Don Francisco Montes and his etnobotanical garden "Sachamama". I spent one week at Sachamama in summer 2008. The garden is situated in the middle of the rainforest 45 min. away from Iquitos (Northwest Peru). Along my journey last summer I became more and more fascinated by the subject of schamanism and the work of Don Francisco as a schaman. The Idea was born and a lot of paperwork and planning had to be done...

See you soon! ;-)

blog launch

Hey there,
the long summerbreak is over and I welcome u to my new blog .Here you can follow me thru my new documentary film project, which is part of my apprentice semestre. So folks have fun !