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
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
The director Kine Boman has been engaged professionally in documentary filming since 2001. Her first own documentary was The Only Image of My Father, first presented at the Göteborg International Film Festival 2004.
