Jessica Chastain is embarking on a new adventure and seeking to paint Sitting Bull in The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive first look at a clip from the DirecTV film, 'Woman Walks Ahead.

Starring Jessica Chastain, right, as Catherine Weldon and Michael Greyeyes, left, as Sitting Bull, "Woman Walks Ahead" depicts Weldon's journey to the Dakotas in the late 1800s to paint a portrait ...

Eileen Pollack writes about Catherine Weldon, a woman from Brooklyn, who twice came to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to work with Sitting Bull and to paint his portrait. Her first visit was ...

To this end, she befriended Sitting Bull, who was the leader of the traditionalist faction among the Sioux; in the course of painting his portrait, she also became his secretary, interpreter and ...

Jessica Chastain plays the artist who painted Sitting Bull in the inert history lesson ‘Woman Walks Ahead’ By Justin Chang Film Critic June 28, 2018 12:03 PM PT Film Critic ...

Chastain’s Weldon meets Sitting Bull more than a decade after he helped defeat Custer at Little Bighorn. The chief is now a potato farmer who charges to have his portrait taken.

The movie’s Weldon, however, has no knowledge about the plight of the Sioux when she arrives. She finds a downcast Sitting Bull planting potatoes and offers him $1,000 to paint his portrait.

In 1889, an artist and activist living in New York journeyed to what is now the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, stretching across the Dakotas, where she befriended Sitting Bull and ...

What this 1800s film about Sitting Bull says about terrorism in 2017 and the Dakota Access Pipeline In ‘Woman Walks Ahead,’ Jessica Chastain plays real-life figure Catherine Weldon, who ...