On the Navajo Nation, farmer Cherilyn Yazzie is embarking on the biggest crop to date to grow produce for the community. Big Water Summer, a short documentary with a world premiere at SXSW 2022, follows the farm over several months that don’t go as planned. Presented by GoDaddy.
What can one person do to keep her community healthy? After years of working in public health, Cherilyn Yazzie has returned to her ancestral land of the Navajo Nation to work the land and grow produce for her community. As a social worker, telling kids to eat healthy often felt impossible — there are only 13 grocery stores on the entire Navajo Nation, a reservation that is over 27,000 square miles. Cherilyn and her husband set out to grow their largest crop yet over a summer where nothing goes as planned. Faced with the chaos of a changing climate and devastating family loss, Cherilyn endures — but will the farm survive?
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Big Water Summer
15-minutes
Cherilyn grew up on her grandparents’ farm on the Navajo Nation. She has returned to grow produce for the community and is embarking on the biggest crop to date. Big Water Summer follows the farm over several months that don’t go as planned.
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- : Block 1 – 9:00am
- : Block 2 - 11:10am
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- Filmmaker will be in attendance
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