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Chris Eyre is a film director and a producer who belongs to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. His work draws attention to the Native American people and continues to break the stereotypical impression of them. He was described by People magazine as “the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time.” He is a native of Portland Oregon, born in 1968.
Throughout his career he has won many awards and honors for his work that centers on Native Americans. He won awards in 2007 from both the United States Fellowship and the Bush Foundation Artists Fellowship in Film/Media.I was looking for more information and found it here. He was one of three filmmakers picked to be in the 2004 Tribeca All Access Program. Eyre directed three of the films in PBS’s Native American history series. “Trail of Tears”, one of these films opened the Native American Film and Video Festival in 2009. His work on “Edge of America” about a girls’ basketball team in a reservation high school was honored at Sundance. It received the Peabody Award in 2006. He also received Outstanding Directorial Achievement in 2005 for this film and the Parents’ Choice Award in 2006.
Chris Eyre has also directed episodes of Law and Order, Friday Night Lights, and Special Victims Unit for NBC. In 2005 he had the privilege of producing the short film “A Thousands Roads” for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, to be used as their signature film. It follows four different American Indians during each of their daily lives.
Eyre produced films such as Smoke Signals and Skins. He has directed Skinwalker, A Thief of Time, After the Mayflower, and Tecumseh’s Vision. He also produced The Doe Boy and Imprint. He has become one of Portland Oregon’s award winning filmmakers for the Native American people.