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Sacred Woman: We Are Here & We Do Remember

Sacred Woman Docuseries is an engaging episodic documentary centered around health, wellness, and the ancient cultural legacy of black and indigenous communities. The Sacred Woman Docuseries, an 8-part investigative series, offers a profound meditation on notions of rituals, traditions, and customs from cultivating a natural lifestyle of healing and the inescapable pull of one's ancestral roots from Africa. Based on a New York Times best-selling book Sacred Woman: A guide to healing the feminine body, mind, and spirit by world-renowned author Queen Afua, this biographical holistic experience follows her physical and spiritual journey that draws
on complexities of womb wellness, the ascension of sisterhood, and the gradual return of conscious awareness.

  • Robert Gay
    Director
    Black Lives Matter Video Essay, Hapi Film, Taichi Internal Healing Arts Short
  • Johanna Rosario-Gay
    Director
    Hapi Film, Taichi Internal Healing Arts Short
  • Robert Gay
    Writer
    Black Lives Matter Video Essay, Hapi Film, Taichi Internal Healing Arts Short
  • Johanna Rosario-Gay
    Writer
    Hapi Film, Taichi Internal Healing Arts Short
  • Robert Gay
    Producer
    Black Lives Matter Video Essay, Hapi Film, Taichi Internal Healing Arts Short
  • Johanna Rosario-Gay
    Producer
    Hapi Film, Taichi Internal Healing Arts Short
  • Helen Robinson
    Key Cast
    "Queen Afua"
  • Erykah Badu
    Key Cast
    "Erykah Badu"
  • Lauren London
    Key Cast
    "Lauren London"
  • Angela Rye
    Key Cast
    "Angela Rye"
  • Lalah Delia
    Key Cast
    "Lalah Delia"
  • Lauren Von Der Pool
    Key Cast
    "Lauren Von Der Pool"
  • Tahliah Debrett Barnett
    Key Cast
    "FKA Twigs"
  • Akhi Taylor
    Key Cast
    "Chef Akhi"
  • Queen Afua
    Executive Producer
  • Supa Nova Slom
    Co-Producers
  • Sherease Torain
    Co-Producers
  • Ali Torain
    Co-Producers
  • Chris Kazi Rolle
    Co-Producers
  • Queen Esther Sarr
    Art Direction
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    2 hours 40 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 16, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    288,332 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Egypt, Ghana, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Canon Cinema 422 10 bit
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • Vimeo OTT
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: Video on Demand
Director Biography - Robert Gay, Johanna Rosario-Gay

Robert is the founder and president of Tehuti Films LLC, a boutique production company specializing in socially conscious, short-format content and feature-length documentaries. Robert is a 2021 Emmy Award Winner for short-form content on a Black Lives Matter Video Essay about the late Antwon Rose II, he has broadcast credit on NBC, Viacom, A&E, and PBS Networks. As a full-service production company, Tehuti Films’ diverse portfolio displays profile pieces of urban entrepreneurs, commercial advertisements, music entertainment, and documentary journalism. In 2019 he completed his first feature-length documentary film as a cinematographer on an internationally acclaimed project entitled “HAPI - The Role of Economics on the Development of Civilization” ( Now streaming on www.HapiFilm.com). Together with his wife he is presently working on an eight-part Docu-series about the biography of Queen Afua’s life entitled Sacred Woman: We are here and we do remember.

Johanna was born in Manhattan, NY, raised in the Lower East Side, and is now attending New York University at the Tisch School of Arts for Film and Television in New York City, where she is pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Film. She is a filmmaker, producer, and writer. She is the Co-producer and editor of the award-winning documentary film, HAPI- The role of economics and the origins of civilization (now streaming on Vimeo). As Co-Founder of Tehuti Films for the past 13 years, Johanna has remained passionately devoted to building her & her husband’s business, while educating herself about social, political, and cultural issues around the world.

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Director Statement

As a child, I was attracted to indigenous cultures. At first, I thought it was based on traditional holidays and commercialized costumes everyone would buy to go trick or treating. In defining my identity as a man, I concluded that there were inconsistencies in the depiction of indigenous cultures. The most important one is the absence of the divine feminine. What this made me realize is that when you break up a people’s continuity systems: original traditions, rituals, and customs they will no longer be able to create communities in which they can express loyalty, purpose, and mindfulness.

My purpose became to document the miseducation associated with that narrative through cinema to reconstruct our people’s rich cultural values.
It is in this way that I believe intergenerational cycles can be broken, and a new legacy can be created - Robert Gay

I truly believe that stories matter, and I too have a visual story to tell. I am committed to an uncompromising vision that challenges conventional paradigms, but I understand that in order to create something new, one must first learn and understand the history behind it. Death has a way of putting into perspective what matters most. The genuine euphoria of everyday life; perceiving a purpose; setting a standard of your own; knowing your mind and your beliefs and being able to live them; understanding that the world won't dedicate itself to satisfying you because that is up to you, I cheer in life for the well-being of its own. Life is no "brief light", for me, it is an astonishing light that I seek to absorb. I’ve come to understand that in order to do something good for humanity and serve my own purpose, I must actualize my goals and these goals contribute to the overall vision of Black Love & Life. - Johanna Rosario-Gay