The documentary Herdswoman by Kine Boman
We encounter three women and their lives with the reindeer herds. They belong to different generations and each of them fight for their livelihood and for the right to their culture.
Production information
Production company - Filmateljén
Co-production - Filmpool Nord, Sirel Peensaar-Miell
Producer - Bo Harringer
Director - Kine Boman
Director of photography - Hans-Olof Utsi
Editor - Rasmus Ohlander
Sound design - Mikael Brodin
Original music - Nina Sarri Vahlgren
With support from Film in Halland, Norrbotten County Council, Jokkmokk Municipality, KUPP/Jokkmokk Municipality, The Sami Parliament, EU Structural Fund Programme Target 1
News
PREMIERE 2009 in Australia & Puerto Rico! Herdswoman will have its australian premiere at The Dreaming Festival in Woodford, Australia.
Awards
Herdswoman was awarded with the Documentary Film Prize at the 50th Nordic Film Days in Lübeck. The film has earlier won an Audience Prize and Best Esthetic Award.
The participants
Elisabeth is a woman who stands up for herself in a male-dominated trade. She hunts elk, she slaughters and cuts up the meat. She is the strongwoman, with a headstrongness that makes anything possible as long as you are determined enough.
The film makers
Hans-Olof Utsi, 38 year-old Sami photographer from Mertajärvi in the northernmost part of Lapland. Since 1994 proprietor of Fotograf Hans-Olof Utsi AB in Kiruna.
