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
Original music for Herdswoman is beeing created by Nina Sarri Vahlberg. She is a graduate from the Royal College of Music and a freelance composer and music artist.