Historjá - Stygn för Sápmi
HISTORJÁ is a poetic and striking story of the sami female artist Britta Marakatt- Labba. Her art describes the sami culture, today and historically, and the reindeer husbandry, threatened by the global climate crisis.
Producers: Pelle Nilsson, Mattias Nohrnborg
Director: Thomas Jackson
Cinematography: Jonas Rudström, Hans-Olof Utsi
Writer: Thomas Jackson
Editing: Kaveh Akaber
Sound: Felicia Steen Holm
Composer: Eirik Havnes
Director’s Biography
Thomas Jackson is a Swedish documentary filmmaker and screenwriter born in 1976 in Gävle, Sweden. He is the director of *Historjá – Stitches for Sápmi* (2022), which portrays Sámi artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's struggle for Sápmi and the cultural survival of the Sámi people in the face of climate change. The film won two Guldbagge Awards in 2023 for Documentary of the Year and Best Original Music. His other films include Foodies (2014), Kartellen – Lys upp skuggorna (2016), and Sök och du skall finna (2017), and his work has been shown at the Berlinale, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, and MoMA Tokyo.