Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho) will serve as the
director of the PBS film, historic re-enactments and creative
advisor for the online Native POV program. Chris Eyre
directed three of the five one-hour episodes of the Emmy-nominated
American Experience Series,We Shall Remain, currently airing on
PBS. The episodes directed by Chris are Part I: -After the
Mayflower; Part II -Temuseh's Vision and; Part III:Trail of Tears.
As a producer, director and writer, his films focus on all aspects
of historic and contemporary Native American Life, while dispelling
the usual stereotypes. Eyre's debut feature 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. Skinsis a gritty tale
of two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation - one a tribal cop
and the other is a Vietnam vet battling alcohol and emotional
problems. He also directed two episodes of the PBS
seriesMystery!;Thief of Time andSkinwalkers 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. In 2006, Eyre won the DGA's Outstanding
Directorial Achievement for Children's forEdge of America, 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 DC in 2005 for
an unlimited and exclusive engagement. Chris Eyre was named a 2007
USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.