WOMAN WALKS AHEAD Trailer Debut Witness the first WOMAN WALKS AHEAD trailer! The film, directed by Susanna White (Our Kind of Traitor, Nanny McPhee Returns), stars Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Michael Nouri, Michael Greyeyes, and Ciarán Hinds. WOMAN WALKS AHEAD will be released in theaters on June 29. The story follows Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), who moved from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people. Weldon wrote letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and lived on the land for several years with her son.