The Shepherdess

Scheduled in Block 4

Synopsis:

A Navajo shepherdess perseveres in a rapidly vanishing way of life, despite extreme drought on the reservation. “We didn’t even go up the mountain because there’s no water,” she recounts. “Hardships are just lessons and challenges in life and you just can’t dwell on it, you have to live through it.”

Director Bio:

Katie Falkenberg is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Southern Oregon. She is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography for her body of work, “Motherhood in the Time of Zika,” and a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Photography, for her work following three families after the Great Recession. She has been named Multimedia Photographer of the Year by both Pictures of the Year International (POYi), and the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), and two of her short films have been named Official Honorees in the Webby Awards. When not working, she can be found surfing, fly fishing, or trail running with her pup, Mabel.