Harbor Theater is celebrating its first year as a non-profit with a special screening of the award-winning film, “The Shepherdess of the Glaciers,’ on Sunday, Sept. 30, 4-6:30 p.m.

Director Stanzin Dorjai-Gya will introduce his film about his own sister, one of the last remaining goat herders in the high Himalayas of northern India.

This is a free event for all members of the Harbor Theater. Tickets for non-members will be sold at the door for $10. Seating is limited. Members should RSVP before Sept. 22 by sending an email to members@boothbaycinema.org.

A wine and cheese reception catered by Eventide Specialties starts the festivities at 4 p.m. At 4:30,  Board President Bob Devine will make a short report about the success of the non-profit theater at the end of its first year. The film’s director will then introduce the film, which starts shortly before 5 p.m. and is 1 hr 10 minutes. The director, who has traveled from India for this event, will stay afterwards for a Q&A session.

“The Shepherdess of the Glaciers” transports us to the far northern mountains of Ladakh, India, where Tsering, one of the last shepherdesses in this dry and desolate landscape, leads her flock of 300 sheep and goats to graze on the Himalayan Plateaus. It is through her brother’s skillful documentation over four seasons that we witness Tsering’s world of loneliness and her unbreakable bond with her animals, who all must fight against temperatures plummeting to minus 40F and the persistent threat of snow leopards.

Winner of the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and awards at more than 20 other festivals, The Shepherdess of the Glaciers engages viewers with the magnificence of the Himalayan landscape and the vitality of the human spirit.

Award-winning film director Stanzin Dorjai-Gya’s career trajectory from his nomadic roots to being one of two Indians asked to present at the Climate Change Talks in Paris 2015, is every bit as extraordinary as the audacious life of his sister. The film is sponsored by Wild Fibers Magazine and Keep the Fleece (a 501c3 which seeks to promote all aspects of the natural fiber industry within indigenous populations).

A short film about the Cashmere Center, founded by Stanzin and Keep the Fleece founder Linda Cortright of Union, Maine will be shown before the feature film. The Center empowers village women in northern India by teaching them to knit cashmere items and helping them sell those items online around the world. Linda will attend the event and be on hand to speak about the Cashmere Center after the show.