Three Days with the Sámi Reindeer People [Swedish Lapland]

The Sámi are indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. We visited Jokkmokk in Swedish Lapland and met the reindeer herder Carl-Johan Utsi (IG @cjusti) and Leila (IG @leilanutti). Join our adventure! My online film school: myfilm.school/swedish-vlog2
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[@BrandonLiUnscripted]

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[@emotionpictures19]

Very beautiful video

[@peterlyall2848]

I hope you Sami feel ashamed of yourselfs living so called primitive life when go about demanding land rights the time . If you want land then earn it pay for it yourself. Stop expecting to given to you for free. Be like everyone else pay taxes no more hand outs to you. We live in a capitalist world right now or have you forgot that. Got to to stop you from accessing easy money that the government gives to you lothers. Stop it right now and go out and work like every able bodied people do.

[@KibyNykraft]

@@peterlyall2848 You sound like a real Joe Biden and Donald Trump troll. Like an extension of the british empire or Josef Stalin. The governments of north Europe did not pay a dime when they turned the private siidas (original system of property borders between the indigenous) into state property just by pure invasion. Capitalism? Well are you then willing to pay the lapps if picking the berries of their marshes? Originally they didnt demand that, but originally there were not national state borders and tax systems like from in north Europe the renaissance (late nordic medievals) and onwards. The first taxes went to only royals and priests, and not to anything sensible. Tax systems now are poorly managed with much waste and corruption and outdated bureacracy. Why pay taxes at all if private property and capitalism is a point to make?

[@KibyNykraft]

@@peterlyall2848 The right thing to do if cutting the subsidies to farmers, classic smalltown fishermen, reindeer herders, is only to lower taxes + cancel all government administration/ "allemannsrett". If the primary classic production places are to do food production, tourism and culture preservation on no state subsidy, which is not a bad idea, the others in society must be willing to pay the missing income once buying or fishing in the countrysides and wilderness. I doubt it is interesting or functional for any reindeer herding lapps to start american gambling reservations. Or, did you really mean that the lapps should all become city people forgetting their legacy. Like the modern day neo-sämi academics and their gay pride flags want.

[@peterlyall2848]

@@KibyNykraft yeah whatever if you say so.

[@eduardozamora1947]

"I'll see you on the next vlog". Wait... this was a vlog? Its better than a lot of "serious" documentaries out there. I loved it.

[@ajproart2]

I never expect less from Brandon. And his work always amazes me.

[@markusmuller6173]

Thanks for the on site report !

[@singlespeedsoulja8415]

This is not a "vlog". This is a storytelling masterpiece.

[@lensnomad2190]

Now that's what I call a "cinematic vlog"... It's actually "cinematic", and has no zoom transition!

[@naeliddle3976]

I’m so proud of my people 😭

[@Nai_101]

Leatgo Sápmelaš?

[@BenFilmProduction]

wow.. That went from an engaging documentary to a fun vlog to a masterpiece. Nothing too flashy nothing too extra and unnecessary just pure story telling. Love it!

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@markusmuller6173]

Thanks for the on site report !

[@Shompenify1]

Så stolt över att dela ett land med samer! Hoppas verkligen att erat folk fortsätter föra er historia vidare.

[@dinahquillen9380]

This is what the internet is for. To teach us about other cultures. These people are very beautiful and interesting.

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@JamieFenn]

Whenever I see a new video uploaded I drop what I’m doing and watch because I know it’s going to be gold. Amazing film once again Brandon!

[@ajproart2]

💯

[@emotionpictures19]

True

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@kidchris]

Whenever i watch your videos or vlogs, i realise that your content contains some kind of value, which i wont find in any other videos of most of other KZbin Content Creators around. This is not a vlog, but more a high quality documentary. I enjoy every minute and the quality of the video, sound and Story is so inspirational to me. Thumbs up!

[@Tropictank]

Wonderful, documentary-style short film. Thank you, Brandon.

[@theunderwaternature]

Hey there, nice to see you here😃

[@lensnomad2190]

Actually wonderful documentary-style cinematic travel-vlogy short film...

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@cloudberries]

Fantastic video. Thank you for visiting Sápmi!! You have a new subscriber for sure. Love from a Sámi girl in the States ❤️💚💛💙

[@peterlyall2848]

Well Sami girl of the State's stop acting the life of a primitive person and get your ass off the grass and get a job like normal able bodied person. It's time to earn your keep and stop living on welfare government checks . Now gone on get stop this Sami Hippy life style.

[@Matthew-wi5im]

@@peterlyall2848 Excuse me? That is highly rude, she never mentioned anything about her job. I’m also a sámi person living in the states and the US government does not get us welfare. Please learn to respect other cultures. They’re are indigenous American tribes that do receive welfare from the US government, because we are living on the land that was stolen from them, their culture was close to being erased. Please learn about stuff before you speak.

[@peterlyall2848]

@@Matthew-wi5im they don't give you welfare what kind person would so nasty to do that.how in hell do they expect you to get by? Wow that's so friggin unfair. Hope you get some kind government help soon cuz you need.anyway hope you a better year in 2021 than 2020 hope this vaccine for Covid 19 works? Got to go best of luck to you in the future...Pete from Australia 🇭🇲👍😃

[@henriettanovember4733]

@@peterlyall2848 Shame on you! And it is NOT a hippy lifestyle. It is REAL life! At least in Sweden.

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@AtomicPixel]

Love the documentary vibes! Great story and filming brother. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@IM8HOURSAHEAD]

Thanks for bringing a very important topic to everyone´s attention while making a vlog/cinematic short film Brandon!!

[@TravelwithTommy]

Another absolutely gorgeous short film here Brandon. Always fun watching your video.

[@Asakasen]

Awesome film, Brandon! As always! 😄 Really liked the style of this, reminded me a lot of the Revenant and Lubezki's work!

[@paulgero]

a bit of wind river too

[@matmanx2]

Fabulous. Fascinating. Many thanks for making the movie and posting.

[@maggiepie8810]

As a Swede, I can say that it was a lot colder with more snow when I was a kid (I'm 29).

[@BrandonLiUnscripted]

Wow that’s scary. Warming up so fast.

[@haleybunker1339]

They are all beautiful and gorgeous reindeer.

[@haronfilmstudio3714]

Brandon, as usual you deliver the un inspected in a expected way. Thanks for cheering your experience of my home country.

[@shawneydepp]

Really loved this story. Thank you for this masterpiece!

[@Jimrogalski]

Such a wonderful film! Thank you.

[@mattbiggers]

Your best vlog by far. Really enjoyed the look inside the community. A lot more handheld shots in this one and I appreciated the variety and liked the drone work as well.

[@Broekmanium]

Around 2:15, I remember that nice lady walking her reindeer running a hotel in Jokkmokk, small world.

[@zlatkonanev]

Another beautiful video. Thank you Sir.

[@lynellethompson5521]

Beautiful scenery!! Thank you for sharing!!

[@Manuelrehse]

What a fantastic and authentic documentary and so great you got to be with the Sami People! I really enjoyed your video. Thanks for the video. You are a real professional artist!

[@dajjukunrama5695]

lol ok “authentic” sure

[@hardtopleasevlog]

Most VLOGGERS: Welcome to my Vlog (points the camera to themselves instead of showing us where they went)... Brandon Li: Presents a Documentary, calls it a VLOG...

[@pameladrexler5345]

This was short and sweet and so interesting. I just started reading the book Stolen by Ann-Helen Laestadius ( in English trans) and it made me want to see some images of Sami life. Thanks for this -

[@richiemawunyo5493]

Really enjoyed this content, great job man

[@MarioSoMedia]

This is class. Great work and storytelling!

[@seventysevenstoriesz]

Another masterpiece! 🥺

[@anderslangoks3813]

Thanks for this video.

[@jensencaptures]

Love the storytelling, very documentary-like.

[@pyekenobi2798]

Superb! The content was so amazing 👍🏻

[@bengtsall]

Thanks for this great video: Even though I'm Swedish myself I find it so interesting and beautiful crafted . Thanks 🌹

[@pauloricardohandrak1745]

ah you're lying

[@LettersToBarbara]

Breathtaking.

[@Instamic]

Great job Brandon! Love it! Michele

[@mala-wr7ng]

Just discovering one masterpiece after another 👍🏼🖤

[@DavidLeBlancHero]

i look up to your work so much Brandon, your color grading is out of this planet

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@calkraegenbrink955]

My student Luca made a 3 pointer yesterday and tomorrow is Korbin's birthday. Our prize was getting to see this video during young Hagan Isaacson's Sweden presentation. Thank you for sharing your wonderful country with us.

[@Theziad]

More than perfect as usually

[@TimefocusFilms]

Lovely! As always :)

[@NickPolak]

So good, so good, what a nice video to watch!

[@schoeferfilm]

Really cool like always Brandon 👏 i love your documentary style 😍 best regards from a small german filmmaker 😉🇩🇪

[@explorewithboo]

Really cool and so refreshing to watch..

[@markreinhardt4456]

Just awesome!

[@Blomman90]

Love this. My grandfather was sami ❤

[@Data_analyst.]

Communication with people of a foreign country . Their lives. A few days documentary. Wonderful video!

[@Featherlightstudio]

This was really nice work Brandon!

[@MrChangTH]

Nice one! 👍 And cool you visit Jokkmokk, a part of Sweden most Swedes never been too, including myself.. But one day, who knows.. This was lovely 😍🍻

[@BobMaulucci]

Amazing stuff. We were lucky to get to Sweden once for hockey, but never that far north. I hope to get back there. Keep entertaining us with great content like this. Thank you!

[@JannaTravels]

Wow,what a lovely video!

[@harrykirby9488]

Amazing film! so interesting to see how these people live

[@AIKIDO-kimjake]

totally amazing. great story. so awesome, as always. 👏👍👌

[@IssarCerrato]

Bro this is awesome... It should be picked up by Netflix

[@ajproart2]

My thoughts right after seen the intro with credits...

[@simonmonty7171]

Only thing is to be on netflox you need to film with arri alexa or cameras of this level

[@ajproart2]

@@simonmonty7171 I totally understand that. But I'm referring to the content. Is such a master piece.

[@Ryan-Payne]

@@simonmonty7171 Not exactly! You only need to shoot to spec for Netflix funded productions. Even some Netflix originals were not produced by Netflix and don't follow their guidelines. 3rd party netflix content goes off of story merit or how much traffic they feel it will drive to their site and less the spec sheet of the production.

[@simonmonty7171]

@@Ryan-Payne didn't know that!

[@5b113f1a]

I have never seen a vlog in this quality.

[@markusmuller6173]

Thanks for the on site report !

[@wholeheart4287]

Wonderful Vlog! It deserves way more views. I especially enjoy videos that provide some kind of knowledge I haven't heard of before and this was really interesting! I wish you all the success in the world! You deserve it! :)

[@tv-vlog6010]

Wow so awesome

[@bySterling]

Wow... #humansuperheroes 🙏🏻🌎 Beautiful capture and showcase

[@mail-delivery-subsystem]

Wow.... Your quality is amazing dude.

[@terencemorrissey4413]

Fantastic

[@GabrielGarcia-nb5zp]

I LOVE the colors and boldness their clothing has!

[@roufamagga4453]

If you are interested in the culture of Sami people, I strongly recommend you to watch this video though... :)) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqq1kqFtpLqIh5I

[@Kadehr]

This footage looks ... incredible! You make the A7III looks different, less digital. I like it

[@dawngw26]

this was very good! Fascinating! I stumbled upon this because part of my heritage is Swedish Lapland Sami people (I'm an American). I loved your video and will subscribe, thank you!

[@Medlee101]

I need to get out of the studio! What a great story!

[@eleusis3456]

thank you for showing our culture!

[@GaryJahman]

Nice! I like this style

[@westr70]

Awesome film.

[@noahman27]

Wonderful film making.

[@v2kanv]

"They grow up before you know it" very true Dialogue. thx Brandon.

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Amazing!✌️

[@AeroVisual]

Brilliant filmmaking Brandon

[@rayrae56]

Amazing 🔥

[@thetenthhouse]

Magical place 🌸😊💜

[@NegosyoManila]

Browsing your video is like reading a good book! I have benefited a lot! Thank you for making us smile!🥰 Your channel is awesome, so are you!! I'll never get used to saying it is worthy of a million likes! Fully watched! 💯🍎

[@hmsvids9487]

Great skills matched by great content. Definitely on another level above the usual self-obsessed fluff on KZbin. Hope you will continue using the 2.4:1 aspect ratio for your docs/vlogs. It looks great on a wide screen monitor.

[@betharramrojas8051]

woah, one year after the upload of your video we are studying Saami people at university. A nice coincidence! :D

[@ArcticNorthAdventures]

Nice and interesting video, thanks for sharing. Indeed Swedish lapland is a nice area, greetings from Northern Norway

[@NicMediaDesign]

Damn, watched this on a Sony Xperia 5 and I am glad you know how how to render and upload in 21:9 and don't simply render black bars over a 16:9 video

[@JAMSTER1991]

Brandon Li 你真的已经是我们的目标，每次看你的视频都有新的惊艳，向你学习

[@karengrohs4942]

Quite fascinating and a bit sad. My great great great great grandmother was Sami from this area.

[@rockmicah4060]

Vlog ? 😲 it was better than many documentaries 👍

[@t4mor4]

Just come back from Kiruna and there was very little snow so far this year 😢

[@MiqueCapel]

Cool

[@pedrothewise2584]

I am the lucky man. I just come up from Spain and am working carpentry on houses nr pjesker arvidsjaur. I love your country I admire the sami way of life. everything is so new to me at62 I thought I knew about the world.how wrong I was.

[@MagnetiqLabs]

Hi Brandon! Happy to see documentary from you! I'm curious, did you use gimbal for this kind of movie? This film is a bit different in terms of camera movements, than your others films. So it's really interesting, does gimbal is useful for documentary style footage... And thumb up and big respect, as always!

[@obraata567]

I'm just curious what's those 12 dislikes about? I did try to find things/footage/or anything that made me dislike the video but nothing. This is way better than many vlogs with just cool B-rolls in it.

[@vidtrax662]

Good one again 👍👏

[@mayhemassault]

blood dumplings was my favorite food as a child, i live in southern Sweden

[@justkarthi7703]

Bro i love your gimbal movements

[@blablikush]

the smoked and dried reindeer meat is the best, beieve me. My grandfather used to dip it in coffee

[@sonjaarentsen3402]

Hes funny. Like a Sami stand up comedian.😊

[@Sybille453]

Great people 🔥

[@claudinchenchen]

Really nice and interesting docu! Actually much better than these videos with the extremely short takes.

[@ryfo2294]

And again it was the right choice to first hit the like-button and then watch the video :D

[@timodne5741]

Odne🌸

[@patmcdonnell7784]

What a great film, my mind is trying to wrap around how you shot 7:50? Its so beautifully done.

[@Nai_101]

The second angle was probably the camera sitting on a sled being pulled by the snowmobile

[@leaflet1686]

I can relate so much with the weird and to warm winters :( When I was in kidnergarden I used to go sledding every day in winter after kindergarden. Now there is no snow anymore. Maybe for one night at 3 am you can have snow for a while, but it will all be gone before midday... This might sound like old lady talk... But I am only 24!