Chris Eyre

DirectorProducerActorProduction Dec 4 (age 57) Portland, Oregon, USA 1988–2025 (37 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Biography

An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Chris Eyre gained national attention in 1998 with the movie Smoke Signals. People Magazine called him "the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time."

Known For

Film

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Director

Film

Friday Night Lights

Director

Film

Dark Winds

Director

Film

Smoke Signals

Co-Producer

Film

Reel Injun

Self

Film

American Experience

Director

Film

Ishi's Return

Director

Film

Skinwalkers

Tribal Judge Amadeus Pinto

Filmography

Acting (7)

Movies (7)

We Are Still Here

2021

as Self

Growing Native Northwest: Coast Salish

2018

as Self

Growing Native Alaska: People of the North

2018

as Self

Reel Injun

as Self

Wanderlust

as Self

Skins

as Cop

Skinwalkers

as Tribal Judge Amadeus Pinto

6.8

Crew (24)

Movies (16)

Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning

2025

Director

6.3

Memories of Miss O'Keeffe

2017

Director

Ishi's Return

Director

The Seventh Fire

Executive Producer

California Indian

Producer

Hide Away

Director

Imprint

Producer

A Thousand Roads

Director

A Thief Of Time

Director

Edge of America

Director

Edge of America

Producer

Skins

Director

Skinwalkers

Director

The Doe Boy

Producer

Smoke Signals

Co-Producer

Smoke Signals

Director

Television (8)

Dark Winds

Director

Dark Winds

Executive Producer

We Shall Remain

Director

Friday Night Lights

Director

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Director

American Experience

Director

POV

Executive Producer

POV

Producer