Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary that chronicles one summer with a young family amidst a period of great uncertainty. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter, nicknamed Jiatomah ('pale chubby girl'), spend the summer months in eastern Tibet's Zachukha grasslands, an area known as Wu-Zui or '5-Most,' – the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province, China.
The story of a family at a crossroads, Summer Pasture takes place at a critical time in Locho and Yama's lives, as they question their future as nomads. As their pastoral traditions confront rapid modernization, Locho and Yama must reconcile the challenges that threaten to drastically reshape their existence.
Crew
Director/Producer: Lynn True & Nelson Walker III
Co-Director: Tsering Perlo
Cinematographer: Nelson Walker III
Editor: Lynn True
Sound Editor: Paul Bercovitch
Festivals
Locarno Film Festival - Critic's Week
Full Frame Film Festival
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
New Beijing International Movie Festival
Nantucket Film Festival
IDA DocuWeeks
Aspenfest
Camden International Film Festival
Black Bear Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival
Dok Leipzig
Tokyo International Film Festival
Banff Mountain Film Festival
St. Louis Film Festival