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.

PRESS
"Enthralling."
The New York Times

"Summer Pasture has an earthy intimacy and compassion for its subjects that will have you thinking about their plight long after they've packed up and moved on for winter." --The Los Angeles Times

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

"Remarkable." --LA Weekly

"Austerely beautiful and deeply intimate doc... Trust us: This one is a cut above many others in its small genre." --New York Magazine, Critic's Pick

"A remarkably intimate docu woven out of tradition and change, and the endearing subjects who contend with both." --Variety