Filmmaker Bo McGuire

Bo McGuire was born the queer son of a Waffle House cook and his third-shift waitress in Hokes Bluff, Alabama. The first movie he truly fell for was the music video for Reba McEntire’s “Fancy.” He was a Ryan Murphy + Half Initiative Mentee and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2019 “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” His feature debut, SOCKS ON FIRE, won the jury prize for best documentary feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival; the film was supported by Cinereach, Field of Vision, Doc Society, Hot Docs Pitch Forum, Southern Documentary Fund, IFP, and Film Independent. His original television pilot, SHITBIRD, was selected by Spike Lee to receive the Sandra Ifraimova Award and his feature script, ALABAMA SNIPE FIGHT, appeared on NYU’s Purple List. He belongs to the First Church of Dolly Parton.

Producer Amy Dotson

Amy Dotson is the Director of the Northwest Film Center and inaugural curator of film & new media at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon. She also works as a founding group leader of the prestigious Venice Biennale College-Cinema program, as a story expert at the Venice Biennale XR program in Venice, Italy, and is the Head of Studies at Doha Film Institute’s Series Lab. For thirteen years, she worked as the Deputy Director & Head of Programming for IFP.

Amy is currently producing Bo McGuire’s documentary feature, Socks on Fire, with Motto Pictures. She also produced Brad Beesley’s feature documentary, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (HBO and BBC), was a supervising producer for Matt Porterfield’s feature I Used To Be Darker and worked closely with director Tim Sutton as a producing advisor on doc/narrative hybrid, Memphis.

OML is committed to striving for gender and racial equity in all of our projects.