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 ...
Indigenous people have been telling stories for centuries longer than the film industry has existed. Yet historically, ...
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 ...
“Smoke Signals” was released in 1998 and marketed by Miramax as “the first feature film written, directed and produced by Native Americans.” Credit: Screen capture from “Smoke Signals” I remember ...
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 ...
SATURDAY NIGHT CINEMA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Center for Equity and Inclusion will screen the 1998 film, Smoke Signals, each day from Monday, November 14th – Friday, November 18th, during lunch hour ...