THE NAGEL INSTITUTE AT CALVIN UNIVERSITY PRESENTS

A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM BY UNTAMED

We are all in quest OF answers

Hunger in South African coastal fishing villages.

Religious violence across Nigeria.

The historical weight of colonization in Ghana.

Beautifully shot, poetic, and immersive, THE SOURCE OF THE SPRING is a vivid and unexpected journey into African cosmology, theology, and traditional wisdom, showing how vital, life-and-death realities are connected by questions of religious identity and meaning.

Three countries, 5 languages, indigenous fishers, African Kings, African Queens, Yoruba and Akan Chief Priests, Christian Pastors and Prophets, Muslim Imams, African Theologians and Social Scientists, Harvard Professors, and many beautiful souls.

An UNTAMED production, this film is the result of Templeton Religion Trust funding to The Nagel Institute at Calvin University to support a three-year project called Engaging African Realities. Learn more at The Nagel Institute.

THE SOURCE OF THE SPRING is a beautiful and poetic meditation on Africa’s past, present, and future.

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FEATURING

  • Felicity Apaah, PhD Rev.

    Lecturer, University of Ghana

  • Demaine Solomons

    Associate Professor of Theology, Stellenbosch University

  • Alhaji Arilewola Abdulsalam

    Chief Imam, Ilawe Central Mosque

  • M. Perry Nii Osah Tettey, PhD

    Deputy General Secretary, International Central Gospel Church

  • Dr. Omotayo Idowu Owoeye

    Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University. Associate Professor of Anthropology, OAU

  • Very Rev. Dr. Kofi Amoateng

    Lecturer, Trinity Theological Seminary

  • Nico Waldeck

    Lambert’s Bay Resident

  • Riann Coetzee

    Fisher

  • Samantha Williams

    Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University

  • Jacob Kehinde Olupona

    Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School. Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

  • Nana Kow Ackon V

    Twafohen / Senior Divisional Chief, Oguaa Traditional Area (Cape Coast)

  • Aba Hayford

    Communications Consultant

  • Kate Sey-Quainoo

    Safohen Nana Abiw, Captain of the ‘Tuafo’ #1 Asafo Company of Cape Coast

  • Komfo Kow Badu

    Traditional Priest of the ‘Tuafo’ #1 Asafo Company of Cape Coast

  • Sarah Afrika

    Ebenhaeser Community Leader

  • Janetta 'Jenny' Blankenberg

    Ebenhaeser Resident

  • Alfa Mahammodu Abdurahman Ayetoro Mojuba

    Muslim Imam

  • Muhammadu Salim Abdulrahman Zukadri Ayetoto Mojuba

    Muslim Imam

  • Prophetess Olayinka Keshinro

    Christian Prophetess

  • Chief Priest Adetolaju Olusunday

    Obaru Adimula Ororin of Irorin

  • His Royal Majesty Oba Adebanji Ajibade Alabi

    King of Ilawe Ekiti

  • Akinola Patrick Adu

    Superior Evangelist

  • Isak Pieters

    Fisher

  • Salvester Don

    Fisher

  • The question remains: who are we? You can never build on borrowed foundations.

    Felicity Apaah, PhD Rev.

    Lecturer, University of Ghana

  • We should be like the children of one mother. The only necessary thing is the ability to listen and understand each other.

    Alhaji Arilewola Abdulsalam

    Chief Imam, Ilawe Central Mosque. Nigeria

  • we must understand that things have changed. The youth, the children, have changed. What brought about this change? How did they change?

    Nana Kow Ackon V

    Twafohen / Senior Divisional Chief, Oguaa Traditional Area (Cape Coast). Ghana

  • If small-scale fishing is gone in South Africa, the food of our children will be no more. There's nothing else worse to think about. We see the signs of it now.

    Nico Waldeck

    Lambert’s Bay Resident. South Africa

CREW

  • Chris Baron

    Cinematographer

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  • Sean Dimond

    Director, Producer, Score, Aerial Cinematography

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  • John Harrison

    Producer, Editor, Additional Cinematography

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  • Sebastian Jones

    Editor

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  • Johnny Valencia

    Cinematographer, Aerial Cinematography, Color

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  • Ryan Wehner

    Motion Graphics

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TECH SPECS

64 minutes. 2.35:1. 3840p. AFRIKAANS, AKAN, ENGLISH, YORUBA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

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