Woman Walks Ahead
Woman Walks Ahead is a 2017 American biographical drama Western film directed by Susanna White and written by Steven Knight. The film is the story of Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a portrait painter who travels from New York City to the Dakotas in 1890 to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes). Chaske Spencer and Sam Rockwell also star.
Plot
Catherine Weldon, a Swiss-American portrait painter, travels from Brooklyn, New York to the Dakotas in the 1890s to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull. She becomes embroiled in the Lakota people's struggle over the rights to their land.
More details
| author | Steven Knight |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | North Dakota |
| director | Susanna White |
| editor | Lucia Zucchetti Steven Rosenblum |
| genre | drama western |
| keywords | dakota sitting bull |
| musicBy | George Fenton |
| producer | Andrea Calderwood Edward Zwick Erika Olde Marshall Herskovitz Rick Solomon |
| productionCompany | Bedford Falls Productions Black Bicycle Entertainment IM Global Potboiler Productions |
| publisher | A24 DirecTV Cinema |
| theme | biographical drama |