Everything about Chris Eyre totally explained
Chris Eyre (b.
1968 in
Portland, Oregon), an enrolled
Cheyenne/
Arapaho, is an award-winning film director and producer. His films focus on all aspects of contemporary
Native American life, while dispelling the usual stereotypes. Eyre's debut film,
Smoke Signals (1998), won the coveted
Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy and the Audience Award.
Eyre's strengths as a filmmaker shows in his subsequent work.
Skins is a gritty, yet beautiful tale of two brothers on the
Pine Ridge Reservation—one is a tribal cop and the other is a Vietnam vet battling alcohol and emotional problems. Eyre has also directed two episodes of the famed
PBS series
Mystery!;
Thief of Time and
Skinwalkers starring
Adam Beach as Jim Chee, and
Wes Studi as Joe Leaphorn. Both were executive produced by
Robert Redford and based on the best selling
Tony Hillerman novels.
Skinwalkers revolves around the mystery of
skinwalkers or
shape-shifters, and the murders of several
medicine men.
A Thief of Time is a who-dunnit that intertwines very competitive anthropologists, possible artifact thievery, a missing professor, and the legend of the
Anasazi.
Eyre's
Edge of America had the distinction of being the 2004 Sundance Film Festival "opening night" film.
Edge of America is loosely based on the true story of a black English teacher who goes to the Three Nations Reservation to teach, but ends up coaching the very underachieving girls basketball team and takes them all the way to the state finals. In the process, he learns as much about their culture and race relations in America as much as they learn about winning and self-esteem. On January 29, 2006, Eyre won the
DGA's award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs for
Edge of America, becoming the first Native American to win the award.
Eyre's short film,
A Thousand Roads, the "signature film" for the Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian, opened in Washington D.C. April 10, 2005, for an unlimited and exclusive engagement. It is a contemporary film, following four American Indians in different locations, as they each confront everyday events.
Chris Eyre was named a 2007 USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by
United States Artists, a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists.
Films
- Smoke Signals (1998)
- Skins (2002)
- Skinwalkers (2002)
- Edge of America (2003)
- A Thief of Time (2004)
- A Thousand Roads (2005)
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