With support from

Film in Halland
Norrbotten County Council
Jokkmokk Municipality
KUPP/Jokkmokk Municipality
The Sami Parliament
EU Structural Fund Programme Target 1

 

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News

2010 June 11 - Herdswoman at The Dreaming, Australia’s international Indigenous festival!

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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.

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The participants
Elisabeth - herdswoman from Sirges sameby

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.

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The film makers
Hans-Olof Utsi - fotograf från Kiruna

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.

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