BITTERBRUSH
Emelie Mahdavian’s sweeping documentary BITTERBRUSH follows Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline, range riders who are spending their last summer herding cattle in remote Idaho. Totally off the grid with only their dogs as companions, Hollyn and Colie brave inclement weather and perilous work conditions while pondering their futures. A portrait of friendship, life transitions, and the work of two skilled young women in the isolated and beautiful landscape of the American West, Bitterbrush is an intimate portrayal of a way of life rarely seen on film.
DIRECTED BY
Emelie Mahdavian
PRODUCED BY
Su Kim, Emelie Mahdavian
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY
Laurene Powell Jobs, Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan Silberberg, Nicole Stott, Jenifer Westphal, Joe Plummer
EDITED BY
Curtiss Clayton, Emelie Mahdavian
“…the film presents its own modern-day picture of hard work and camaraderie.”
“[Bitterbrush]…undermines the masculine cowboy myth as well as assumptions about what women are capable of doing.”
“Gorgeous docu-western stunningly captures frontier life for two Female cattle herders.”
