AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, February 11, 2002: Imagine a documentary show-casing a pilgrim’s journey from New Zealand, through India, attendance at last years Maha Kumbh Mela, and culminating back in New Zealand for a soul-stirring performance with Indian sarod player Vikash Maharaj. Andrei Jewell, an Auckland film maker whose love of Indian culture began when he was 16 years old, has produced the documentary called Holiwater. Featuring the pilgrim Isaac Tucker, an Auckland percussionist who was formerly associated with a contemporary jazz group, the documentary according to Jewell was, ” As much as following Isaac, I was looking at the way the river system of the Ganges was suffering from over population. I am interested in the marriage of technology and tradition but looking at environmental as well as cultural issues.”
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