Eileen Pollack writes about Catherine Weldon, a woman from Brooklyn ... She was a widow with a young son who started to write letters to Sitting Bull after he and 60 chiefs had been brought ...

Michael Greyeyes as Sitting Bull and Jessica Chastain as Catherine Weldon Brooklyn Eagle: What was the genesis of the film? How did you get involved? Susanna White: It was given to me about three ...

In the first scenes of the new film “Woman Walks Ahead,” widow Catherine Weldon (played by Jessica ... portrait of the Native American chief Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes), at a time when ...

In “Woman Walks Ahead,” a handsome snooze of a historical drama, Jessica Chastain plays Catherine Weldon ... famous Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes).

The Oscar-nominated actress plays real-life artist Catherine Weldon in the period drama ... to paint a picture of Native American leader Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes). Her arrival and ...

As in Eileen Pollack’s 2002 book, “Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull,” director White seems to identify personally with the challenge that a white woman ...

In the clip, the actress plays Catherine Weldon, an American widowed artist from New York that travels alone via train to North Dakota in pursuit of painting a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull ...

Woman Walks Ahead tells the incredible true story of New York portrait artist Catherine Weldon, who travels alone to the Wild West’s Dakota territory to paint the great Chief Sitting Bull.

The film is based on a true story about the friendship between the Hunkpapa Lakota leader and Catherine Weldon, a widowed artist who traveled to North Dakota on a quest to paint Sitting Bull.