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      • Q: Is Smoke Signals based on a true story? A: While Smoke Signals is not based on a specific true story, it draws inspiration from the experiences of Sherman Alexie, the writer of the screenplay.
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  2. Smoke Signals is a 1998 coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Chris Eyre from a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). The film won several awards and accolades, and was well received at numerous film festivals.

  3. Oct 1, 2019 · Since its release in 1998, Smoke Signals has become a seminal movie in Indigenous cinema and Indian Country. It was the first real Indigenous film, written, directed and largely acted by ...

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  4. Jun 24, 2018 · Twenty years ago, director Chris Eyre directed and co-produced Smoke Signals, a coming of age story featuring Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, and American Indian Movement (AIM) activist John Trudell.

  5. Jul 3, 1998 · Smoke Signals” was written by Sherman Alexie, based on his book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” He has a good ear for speech, and he allows his characters to refer to the real world, to TV and pop culture and the movies.

  6. Smoke Signals: Directed by Chris Eyre. With Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer. Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.

  7. Jan 15, 1998 · says “Smoke Signals” is one of the few film written and directed by American Indians, he is careful to distance the film’s story from politics, but not completely.

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