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Summer Pasture
Opening with a Tibetan rodeo, Summer Pastures evolves as an intimate exploration of the personalities, relationship and the complicated circumstances that surround a young nomadic couple living with their infant daughter in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet. Over its course, we witness their travails with illness, infidelity, and the dissolution of their community. With rare access to an area seldom visited by outsiders, the film offers an unprecedented window into a highly insular community. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet nicknamed "five-most" by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote area in Sichuan Province, China. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, just as their ancestors have for generations. In recent years however, Dzachukha has undergone rapid development, which poses unprecedented challenges to nomadic life. In the face of mounting obstacles, Locho and Yama gradually reveal the personal sacrifice they will make to ensure their daughter's future.
Summer Pasture is a collaborative project, initiated by American filmmakers Lynn True and Nelson Walker who partnered with emerging Tibetan filmmaker Tsering Perlo. A lifelong resident of Kham, Perlo grew up in the nomadic areas depicted in the film and granted the team rare access to film in a community seldom visited by outsiders. The aim was to create a film that honestly and intimately shares the everyday challenges and experiences of nomadic life, and in doing so, offer a unique alternative to the abundance of purely religious or politicized films about Tibetans.
Lynn True (Director/Producer/Editor) is a New York based filmmaker and editor with a particular interest in nonfiction storytelling. Rasied in South Korea, India, Chicago, Washington D.C., Arizona's Hopi reservation and suburban Oregon, Ture received a joint degree in Urban Studies & Architecture from Brown University and began her film career as an assistant editor at NBC News and PBS. She has gone on to produce, edit and/or direct numerous independent films including iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel, 2005) and LUMO (PBS's P.O.V. series, 2007). Most recently, Lynn has served as a film programmer at New York's Maysles Cinema in Harlem.
Nelson Walker (Director/Producer/Cinematographer) began his career working on documentaries for Discovery Channel, History Channel, and PBS's NOVA. His directorial debut, iThemba|Hope a documentary about an HIV+ choir from South Africa aired on Sundance Channel in 2005. Nelson has worked extensively in Tibet, as a visiting instructor at Tibet University in Lhasa and contributor to the Tibetan & Himalayan Library. His most recent film, Lumo won a Student Academy Award for Best Documentary, the President's Award at the Full Frame Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS's P.O.V. series in 2007.
Tsering Perlo (Co-Producer/Co-Director) founded Rabsal, a Tibetan NGO that engages Tibetans in filmmaking to preserve and regenerate Tibetan culture and customs. He lives in Dzachukha and graduated from the Sichuan Province Tibetan School. Perlo has worked with the Tibet Fund, The Bridge Fund and the Tibetan & Himalayan Library at the University of Virginia. Perlo is the first recipient of the Machik Fellowship, a program designed to support dynamic Tibetan change-makers. Summer Pasture is his first film.
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4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208
United States
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