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Cora Lee Witt, sitting, is surrounded by some of her grandchildren and their friends during a holiday fair in Short Creek. Witt created a fantasy world called Snowland as a coping mechanism while she lived in a strict, polygamous and Fundamentalist Latter-day Saint community.
Photo by Jill Orschel
Jill Orschel, an award-winning Park City-based filmmaker, wants to introduce the world to Cora Lee Witt, a visual artist who, after three decades, was able to break out of a Fundamentalist Latter-day Saint community on the Utah and Arizona border.
Orschel plans to reveal a film trailer and announce a crowdsourcing campaign for “Snowland,” which is taken from the name of a fantasy world Witt created inside her mind and thorugh art to cope while living under the strict religious and patriarchal rules of the polygamous sect, at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 18, during an online presentation with Park City Film.