Made In Chelsea stars Ollie and Gareth Locke have announced "we are finally dads" after bringing their newborn twins - named Apollo and Cosima - home following a six-week stay in hospital.
03.08.2023 - 17:13 / variety.com
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor When Chris Eyre’s “Smoke Signals” won the audience prize in Sundance 25 years ago, the director thought the kudos would soon lead to a landslide of opportunities for Native talent. Amid a flourishing independent film scene, the road trip dramedy won acclaim and awards as the first feature written, directed and produced by Native filmmakers. But it took two decades, and a pivot to television, for Native voices to finally get a wider chance to be heard.
More than two decades later, Eyre is now an executive producer and director on AMC+’s Navajo noir series “Dark Winds,” based on the Tony Hillerman mystery novels. Longtime Hillerman fans Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin also serve as executive producers.
“Dark Winds” premiered in 2022 as a wave of TV Westerns was proving massively popular, and yet, it’s very different from shows like “Yellowstone,” “Joe Pickett,” and “Justified” with its focus on a Native cast, crew and culture. The writer’s room, headed by the series creator Graham Roland, is all Native. In the first season of “Dark Winds,” which takes place on the Navajo reservation of the Southwest U.S.
in the early 1970s, we meet tribal police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), who lost his son in a mysterious mine explosion. Each new crime he investigates seems to tie back to the explosion, and the second season delves even more combustibly into Leaphorn’s quest to get to the bottom of why his only child had to die. Variety spoke with Eyre, who directed three of the Season 2 episodes, about making his groundbreaking first film, why Native stories have largely shifted to television, and what it was like shooting this new action-packed and emotional season.
Made In Chelsea stars Ollie and Gareth Locke have announced "we are finally dads" after bringing their newborn twins - named Apollo and Cosima - home following a six-week stay in hospital.
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