Mother of the Dawn

Directed by Janell Shirtcliff · 2023

The story of Tia Neiva, a Brazilian truck driver whose visions of extraterrestrial spirits gave rise to the Valley of the Dawn, a religion with hundreds of thousands of followers.

A striking look at a vast, visually spectacular Brazilian religion most of the world has never heard of.

In the early 1950s, in a remote corner of Brazil, a female truck driver named Tia Neiva started having visions of extraterrestrial spirits; shortly after, she began to gain a following, which led to her creation of a rel

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