The 1998 comedy-drama “Smoke Signals,” by director Chris Eyre, celebrates 25 years on the silver screen. To honor its 25th anniversary as the first feature film produced, directed and written by ...

Chris Eyre is a young filmmaker who doesn't work like he's trying to be a trailblazer, which is one reason why Smoke Signals could turn out to be a watershed event in modern cinema. He has a lyrically ...

He works in mysterious ways.

The word “Indian” has been as fluid as smoke. Misapplied to the aborigines of the New World, the name stuck even when the geographical confusion it revealed had been plainly exposed. Displaced for a ...

How many Indigenous films have you watched? Films made by, for and about Indigenous lives. How about “Smoke Signals” (1998)? “Real Injun” (2009), “Barking Water” (2009) or “Rumble: The Indians Who ...

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