The Seattle International Film Festival will be showing Smoke Signals, a film by local author and poet Sherman Alexie at 5 p.m. on Sunday, January 10 as part of their dinner and a movie series. Alexie will be there to present the film and enjoy the salmon and fry bread-filled meal at the Volterra Drawing Room. What SIFF has to say about the film:

The first full-length feature film written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans, Smoke Signals weaves a tale of fathers, friends, and forgiveness that captures the Native American experience while also transcending it to relate a poignant, universal, contemporary story.

Alexie’s Smoke Signals won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 – the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy. Although tickets are sold out as of this morning, if you’re a huge Alexie fan (as I am), you may be able to catch a Seattle celebrity sighting, or maybe even an autograph.