Sweetgrass
Directed by: Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
105 minutes | Unrated
Screening | Friday, May 6, 2011, 7pm - 9pm |
In summer 2003, shepherds took a flock of sheep one final time through the mountains of Montana. Tender and unsentimental, Sweetgrass captures the beauty and hardships of a dying way of life.
"Leaves behind the domain of ethnography and becomes a work of art."
- Dana Stevens, Slate
"The filmmakers' motivation couldn't be clearer: They needed to capture a way of life that may soon exist only on film and in memory."
- Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Nominated: Best Documentary, Gotham Awards, 2010
