TEDxConstitutionDrive 2012 - Luke Griswold-Tergis - "Smokin' Fish"
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 2012-03-20

Our 2012 theme was "Identity"

This year we explored Identity in a way that went beyond the standard gender/race/age lines. We see Identity as the non-genetic DNA of us, one that is co-created by our environments and ourselves, and which drives in a powerful way our choices, our relationships and our lives. Speakers as diverse as Eric Drooker, New Yorker artist, to Beau Lewis, producer of the American Hipster series, to John Murray, scientist at the SRI International labs, came to share their perspectives on Identity.


Luke Griswold-Tergis, producer of documentary Smokin' Fish and maker of smoked fish
  
Luke Griswold-Tergis is a filmmaker based in San Francisco part of the time and Haines Alaska part of the time. He only started calling him self a film maker about a three months when he finished his first film, Smokin' Fish. He was raised by his mom, the dogs, chickens, goats, raccoons and coyotes in a small cabin with no phone, electricity, or running water at the end of a long dirt road in Northern California. He studied Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and has lived abroad in several countries. Before film making he has had a wide range of jobs from commercial fisherman to carpenter to getting textiles printed in India but when ever possible has sought gainful unemployment. Filmmaking has been interesting because it combines the work load of managing a business with the income of being unemployed. Luke, along with his freind Cory, started on this film about six years ago and it is just now finished.