By William Keck, special for USA TODAY, 8/21/02
Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre, who shot to the top with his 1998 movie Smoke Signals, remembers what it was like when the bookmobile paid a visit to his boyhood neighborhood. That's part of the reason he's taking his latest film, Skins, on the road to Indian reservations — free of charge.
"I knew I had a responsibility to bring this movie to the (Native American) community before it went into general release," says Eyre, 33, of his Rolling Rez tour's genesis. "This is like the millennium bookmobile."
The film's distributor, First Look Pictures, discovered an out-of-use, air-conditioned mobile cinema vehicle, complete with 100 seats and a popcorn machine, parked alongside a Beverly Hills hotel and agreed to help bring Eyre's film to Native Americans from coast to coast. Like most Hollywood premieres, free popcorn and soda will be offered (on a first-come, first-serve basis), but visitors to the Cinetransformer shouldn't expect any alcohol to be served.
"With Skins, I wanted to give a face to the Indian drunk," Eyre says of his film's stereotype-fighting message. "And besides, reservations are usually dry."...
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