DOT
NW EMERGING FEATURE
Filmmaker
Pat Somers &
Dot Fisher-Smith
in attendance

Film hosted
by Bob Coe
& Merrily McCabe

Directed by
Pat Somers
United States,
50 minutes
Documentary
SAT OCT 15 @ 2:00PM
High Street

Dot Fisher-Smith is a mystical, masterful artist, a war resister, an environmental activist, a jailbird. As a great-grandmother, she chained her neck to a log truck to protest salvage logging of old growth forest. Is her life as ordinary as she claims it to be? This moving documentary is an intimate portrait of life and death through the eyes of 82 year-old Dot. Dot’s life illuminates our shared American history; the segregated South, draft protests and LSD in late 60s San Francisco, finding a spiritual path. The film also provides a lyrical close up of Dot’s art and creative process. “My art is moving Zen,” she says. Hundredsof people feel connected with Dot. “I’ve always thought that by the time she’s 80 she’s going to be completely enlightened,” says one. “She’s going to float off the face of the earth. But no, she just keeps getting more real!”

Filmography: First Feature

Playing with the short film BEYOND THE SPILL

NORTHWEST EMERGING SHORT
Filmmaker John Waller in attendance

Directed by John Waller
United States, 30 minutes
Documentary

On April 20, 2010, the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig allowed an estimated 200 million gallons of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico over five months. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. In late July, a 22- member group of Oregonians, including local journalists, artists, documentary filmmakers and activists, traveled to the Gulf to bear witness to the impacts of the spill. This thought-provoking documentary follows them on their journey, hoping to discover what actions we must take to move beyond the spill.