Production Team
Production Team
Chris Eyre – Director
Thomas King – Writer
Brian Wescott – Producer
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).
THOMAS KING
Thomas King (Cherokee) is one of the foremost writers of fiction about Canada's Native people. His works include Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Coyote Sing to the Moon, Truth and Bright Water, and most recently The Red Power Murders: A Dreadful Water Mystery (under the pen-name Hartley GoodWeather). King obtained his Ph.D from the University of Utah. He is known for works that address the marginalization of American Indians, "pan-Indian" concerns and histories, and common stereotypes about Native Americans. King taught Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, and at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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.