Films found one film Country "Vietnam" x films with a digital version 1 Region South-East Asia 1 Country Vietnam 1 x Keywords Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany 1 Health / Health care / Healing 1 Directors Nguyen, M. Trinh 1 Series not set 1 Country of production United States 1 Year of production 1998 1 Film Tigers Apprentice 1998 57' Directed by M. Trinh Nguyen. Tiger's Apprentice is the story of M. Trinh Nguyen's journey to her native Vietnam. She observes and documents her great-uncle's folk medicine practices treating many patients and making his medicines for tumours, leprosy, and infections. She also seeks out people cured by her great-uncle, talks to local doctors and herbalists, battle Vietnamese government censors fearful her footage might make them seem backward to the Western world, and ultimately realises that through her investigation she has unwittingly begun to apprentice. South-East Asia Health / Health care / Healing Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany