---
name: "Chris Eyre"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chris-eyre"
fi1m_id: "chris-eyre"
imdb_id: "nm0264220"
tmdb_id: 212165
wikidata_id: "Q5106521"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 December 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T22:46:35.039138+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Chris Eyre

## Identity

Chris Eyre

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chris-eyre
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chris-eyre
- **IMDb ID:** nm0264220
- **TMDB ID:** 212165
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5106521
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Eyre, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5106521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264220/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/212165

Director. Born 4 December 1968 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 December 1968, Portland, Oregon, USA
- **Active:** 1999–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2020s 79 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Eyre, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5106521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264220/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/212165

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Friday Night Lights*](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md) (86)
- **AMC+:** [*Dark Winds*](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Chris Eyre is an American film and television director and producer. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1968 and raised by adoptive parents in Klamath Falls. He studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned an MFA in filmmaking.

Eyre gained national attention with his debut feature *Smoke Signals* (1998), the first widely distributed film written, directed and co-produced by Native Americans. He has since directed episodes of series including *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, *Friday Night Lights* (2008–2011) and *Dark Winds* (2022–), as well as films such as *Skins* (2002) and *Edge of America* (2003). He has also worked on PBS projects including *We Shall Remain* and documentaries.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tvinsider.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Dark Winds* (2022), Fi1m 79, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md)
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning* (2025), Director
- *Dark Winds* (2022), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/dark-winds.md)
- *Memories of Miss O'Keeffe* (2017), Director
- *Ishi's Return* (2016), Director
- *The Seventh Fire* (2015), Executive Producer
- *California Indian* (2011), Producer
- *Hide Away* (2011), Director
- *We Shall Remain* (2009), series, Director
- *Imprint* (2007), Producer
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), series, Director — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)
- *A Thousand Roads* (2005), Director
- *A Thief Of Time* (2004), Director
- *Edge of America* (2003), Director, Producer
- *Skinwalkers* (2002), as Tribal Judge Amadeus Pinto · Director
- *Skins* (2002), as Cop · Director
- *The Doe Boy* (2001), Producer
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Director
- *Smoke Signals* (1998), Director, Co-Producer
- *American Experience* (1988), series, Director
- *Point of View* (1988), series, Executive Producer, Producer

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