Production Team
Production Team
Chris Eyre – Director
Brian Wescott – Producer/Writer
Leslie Clark – Producer/Writer
Roberta Grossman – Producer
Lisa Thomas – Executive Producer
CHRIS EYRE
Chris Eyre (Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho) recently completed A Thousand Roads (2004), a forty-minute wide-screen documentary screening exclusively at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Eyre’s first film was called Tenacity. This story of two young boys who encounter rednecks on a reservation road won 1st Place in the 1995 Graduate Film Department, the Martin Scorsese Post Production Award (1995) and a Rockefeller Film Fellowship (1995) for Eyre. In 1995, Eyre directed his first full-length feature, Smoke Signals. It became the first film by a Native American to receive a national theatrical release. Eyre's other credits include Skins (2002), Skinwalkers (2002), Edge of America (2005) and A Thief of Time (2004).
BRIAN WESCOTT
Brian Wescott (Athabascan and Yup'ik) received his undergraduate degree in American history from Harvard and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. He has produced educational films for the Mayo Clinic. He wrote, produced and directed a play called Native American Radio Theater. He was cultural consultant for the NBC drama Dark Skies and Alaska Native Technical Advisor for the feature film On Deadly Ground. He co-produced and acted in the feature Christmas in the Clouds, which premiered at Sundance. He has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and as a grant panelist for Native American Public Telecommunications.
LESLIE CLARK
Leslie Clark is an award-winning producer, director and writer with over thirty years of experience. While working for Bill Moyers, she produced The Prime Time President, Leading Questions [winner of a Peabody award], Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis [winner of a National Emmy and a Peabody Award] and environmental stories from South Africa and Brazil for Earth on Edge. She was also one of the producer/writers on America in the Forties for PBS, among many other credits. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker magazine.