Skins

On the surface, Chis Eyre's powerful follow-up to his acclaimed 1998 debut, SMOKE SIGNALS, is the story of two brothers whose paths diverged dramatically, but the pain of the contemporary Native American experience bleeds from every frame. Less than a hundred miles south of Mount Rushmore, that mighty symbol of the U.S. government carved into South Dakota's sacred Black Hills, sprawls one the poorest communities in the nation: the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Home to the Oglala Lakota people, the reservation suffers under a staggering 75% unemployment rate — per capita income is estimated at a shocking $2600 — and the average life expectancy is 15 years l...