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Occupation (s) Film director, film producer. Years active. 1994-present. Chris Eyre (born 1968), an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, is an American film director and producer [1] who as of 2012 is chairman of the film department at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design .
1 Video. 14 Photos. Chris Eyre was born in 1969 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is known for Smoke Signals (1998), Dark Winds (2022) and Skins (2002). More at IMDbPro.
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Lee Juillerat. Last updated. Sept. 21, 2022. Chris Eyre, the nation's most celebrated American Indian film director, was born in Oregon. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, …
Smoke Signals is a 1998 coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Chris Eyre from a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). The film won several awards and accolades, and was well received at numerous film festivals.
Skins is a 2002 American feature film by Chris Eyre and based upon the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. It was filmed on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (renamed the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in the film), which served as the setting in the novel.
Jun 9, 2022 · Filmmaker Chris Eyre loves to discuss the craft of cinematic storytelling, especially where the intersection of Native American experiences and the western film genre overlap. A member of the ...
Aug 3, 2023 · More than two decades later, Eyre is now an executive producer and director on AMC+’s Navajo noir series “ Dark Winds ,” based on the Tony Hillerman mystery novels. Longtime Hillerman fans ...
