An Interview with Native Filmmaker Chris Eyre and Producer Scott Garen

摘要

On January 25, 2005, at the Sundance Festival, I interviewed Chris Eyre, director of the film A Thousand Roads, and Scott Garen, its co-writer and producer. The film was commissioned by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington, D.C., to be their signature film shown at the museum. Eyre, the director of Smoke Signals, Skins, and Edge of America, studied filmmaking at New York University and earned his master's degree before making the critically acclaimed Smoke Signals, his first major work. Eyre is Cheyenne/Arapaho by birth; he was adopted and only later found his birth family.