The Common Reading Program will host a screening of the 1998 film Smoke Signals on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in CUE 202 on the Pullman campus. Based on a short story collection by WSU alumnus Sherman Alexie, the feature film is a humorous yet serious story about two young Coeur d’ Alene Indian men dealing with loss and the end of childhood innocence. Directed by Chris Eyre and filmed in Worley, Idaho, Smoke Signals was the first movie to be written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans. The film won the 1998 Film Makers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival.
This film is part of the Common Reading’s year-long series of weekly events to complement campus use of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants as the 2022-2023 Common Reading book. More information on the series can be found on the Common Reading Presence page and at CommonReading.wsu.edu.
