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junio 2005

Sherman Alexie (Coeur d'Alene/Spokane) is a critically acclaimed filmmaker and writer, with 16 books published to date, including Indian Killer, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction. Alexie's directorial feature debut, The Business of Fancydancing (2002), which is about a gay poet returning to his reservation for a funeral, won the Los Angeles Outfest Outstanding Screenwriting Award, and won Audience Awards at the Victoria Film Festival, the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Previously, Alexie co-produced and wrote the screenplay for Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals, which was adapted from Alexie's story This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona. Smoke Signals premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy. Alexie has acted as a Creative Advisor to the Sundance Institute Writers Fellowship Program and the Independent Feature Films West Screenwriters Lab, and has served on the Independent Spirit Awards Nominating Committee.

Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. After graduating from Washington State University he received the Washington State Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship in 1991 and the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1992. Alexie's Dangerous Astronomy, a poetry chapbook, will be published in 2005.

"There are two scary things about making movies. Number one: there is never enough time or money. Number two: nobody really cares about movies about Indians. But we all keep making them in the hopes that one of us some day creates the indigenous Star Wars, Gone with the Wind, or Friday the Thirteenth Part VI."

Presentado por NMAI

• Half of Anything (2006) subject
• The Business of Fancy Dancing (2002) director, writer
  
• Smoke Signals (1998) co-producer, writer

Bibliografía Selecta

• Ten Little Indians. Sherman Alexie. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
  
• The Business of Fancydancing. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2003.
  
• One Stick. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2000.
  
• Toughest Indian in the World. New York: Grove Press, 2000.
  
• The Man Who Loves Salmon. Boise: Limberlost Press, 1998.
  
• Indian Killer. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
  
• The Summer of Black Widows. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1996.
  
• Water Flowing Home. Boise: Limberlost Press, 1996.
  
• Reservation Blues. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
  
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994.
  
• First Indian on the Moon. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1993.
  
• Old Shirts and New Skins. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California Los Angeles, 1993.
  
• I Would Steal Horses. Niagara Falls: Slipstream Publications, 1993.

Créditos Fotográficos: Sherman Alexie - fotografía de R. Casey, gentileza del realizador