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SUMMER PASTURE
a film by Lynn True Nelson Walker
and Tsering Perlo
In recent years, growing pressures from the outside world have posed unprecedented challenges for Tibetan nomads.
Rigid government policies, rangeland degradation, and the allure of modern life
have prompted many nomadic families to leave the pastures for permanent settlement in towns and cities.
According to nomads, the world has entered duegnan -- dark times.

Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary that chronicles one summer
with a young family amidst this 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. With their pastoral traditions confronting rapid modernization,
Locho and Yama must reconcile the challenges that threaten to drastically reshape their existence.

SUMMER PASTURE is beautiful and important. For me, the best documentary of 2010.
-Albert Maysles, Filmmaker (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter)

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SUMMER PASTURE
Directed & Produced by
Lynn True and Nelson Walker

Co-Producer/Co-Director: Tsering Perlo
Cinematographer: Nelson Walker
Editor: Lynn True
Supervising Sound Editor: Paul Bercovitch

Translators:
Tsering Key
Thupten Pema
Dhondup Lhamo
Phurbu Lhamo
Tudenggongbu
Chelsea Hall
Austin Barney
Wende Drolma
Nyima Tsering
Lobsang Mickey

Production Assistant: Rigpi Dorjee
Post Production Assistants: Emily Frost, Sarah Seigel
Graphic Design: David Frisco, Liz DeLuna
Fiscal Sponsor: Maysles Institute
Legal Services: George A. Cooke, Jr.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SUMMER PASTURE is part of the 2011-2012 season
of the Emmy-winning series INDEPENDENT LENS on PBS.
Special video updates with the family are available here on the Independent Lens blog.

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