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About Chris Eyre...
IT TAKES A COMMUNITY
Directed by Chris Eyre
Tonantzin Carmelo Carla-Rae Holland
Michael Spears Charlie White Buffalo
Tokala Clifford Cory Brusseau
starring:
Chris Eyre is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma. He was born in Portland, Oregon in 1968 and raised in Klamath Falls, Oregon.Chris Eyre's first feature, SMOKE SIGNALS, won numerous awards worldwide and made him a unique figure; becoming the first Native American director to ever make a movie that received national theatrical release. Before that, Eyre attended the prestigious Graduate Film program at New York University, and in 1995, his short film TENACITY won best film. Other films directed by Mr. Eyre have screened at the Sundance Film Festival seven times.
Some of his other films include: SMOKE SIGNALS (1998) with Adam Beach and Gary Farmer; SKINS (2002) Graham Green and Eric Schweig; SKINWALKERS (2002) with executive producer, Robert Redford, with Adam Beach and Wes Studi; A THIEF OF TIME (2003) , executive producer Robert Redford, based on the Tony Hillerman novel; EDGE OF AMERICA (2004) , for which Mr. Eyre won a Directors Guild of America Award, with James McDaniel and Tim Daly; A THOUSAND ROADS (2005) executive producers, Peter Guber and Richard West, Jr., made for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian where it plays an exclusive and unlimited engagement in Washington, D.C.
Awards include: NHK/Sundance Cinema 100 Award - $300,000; Taos Land Grant Award - 5 acres; Rockefeller Film Fellowship; Director Guild Award; Hatch Festival's Native Spirit Award; Sundance Film Festival's Filmmaker's Trophy and the Audience Award.
Chris Eyre's vision as a filmmaker continues in the vein of Native America and when asked if he'll make a movie with no Indian characters Eyre response is a quick, "Of course, but I'm also interested in the lack of Native representation on screen. The cultural aspects of my films mean nothing if I am not personally and emotionally engaged in the characters you're watching and I'm interested in the people I'm portraying. People Magazine called Chris Eyre "...the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time". Geoff Gilmore, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, has simply called him "...a great American filmmaker".
Chris Eyre has served on numerous film festival juries including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribecca Film Festival. Mr. Eyre is represented by NANCY NIGROSH at Innovative Artists
