Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho) directs for film and television. Smoke Signals, his first feature film, is distributed by Miramax and was one of the five highest-grossing independent films in 1998. A classic story of a man coming to terms with his father, Smoke Signals won the Audience Award and Eyre received the Filmmaker's Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Eyre also received the Land Grant Award at the 1998 Taos Talking Pictures Festival. His other films include A Thief of Time and Skinwalkers, based on the novels of Tony Hillerman, for the PBS series Mystery! In 1995, Eyre received a Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film Fellowship. While studying for his MFA in Film and Television at New York University (NYU), Eyre won Best Film in the NYU First Run Festival and also won the Martin Scorsese Post Production Award. Most recently, Eyre directed A Thousand Roads: The Signature Film of the National Museum of the American Indian, showing continuously at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.