Sarah Sifers

Sarah C. Sifers, Ph.D. served as the producer, director, cinematographer and sound person for this production. She is a licensed psychotherapist and world-renowned scholar who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with shamans in Siberia, Brazil, Nepal and the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. She brings to the project advanced knowledge, research and experience on both Tibetan and Nepali shamanism and culture. During the past ten years, she has spent extensive time in Nepal researching and documenting the work of Tibetan and Nepali shamans. Sarah continues to travel to Nepal each fall where she spends two months doing humanitarian work with the Tibetans living in exile in refugee camps. She has written articles for academic journals about her experiences in Nepal. Fate of the Lhapa is her first documentary.

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