Chris Eyre (b. 1968 in Portland, Oregon), an enrolled Cheyenne/Arapaho, is an award-winning film director and producer. His films focus on all aspects of contemporary Native American life, while dispelling the usual stereotypes. Eyre\s debut film, Smoke Signals (1998), won the coveted Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy and the Audience Award. [1] Eyre\s strengths as a filmmaker shows in his subsequent work. Skins is a gritty tale of two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation—one is a tribal cop and the other is a Vietnam vet battling alcohol and emotional problems. Eyre has also directed two episodes of the famed PBS series Mystery!; Thief of Time and Skinwalkers starring Adam Beach as Jim Chee, and Wes Studi as Joe Leaphorn. Both were executive produced by Robert Redford and based on the best selling Tony Hillerman novels. Skinwalkers revolves around the mystery of skinwalkers