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 Actor, cultural activist, musician and filmmaker, Gary Farmer (Cayuga) has been featured in groundbreaking leading roles including Philbert Bono in Jonathan Wacks' Powwow Highway and Arnold Joseph in Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals. For his role as Nobody in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, Farmer won the Best Actor awards in 1997 from both the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and First Americans in the Arts in Los Angeles. Farmer also won the Best Actor award at the 1989 American Indian Film Festival for his role in Powwow Highway.
Farmer is the founding director of a highly original urban Indian radio network, a major cultural publication, and a cultural festival. Aboriginal Voices Radio (AVR), currently broadcasts from 106.5 FM Toronto and streams at www.aboriginalradio.com. Prior to developing AVR, Farmer led the Aboriginal Voices Festival, an annual film and art event in Toronto from 1998-2000, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Aboriginal Voices, a magazine about indigenous arts published from 1993-1999.
Gary Farmer has completed a short fiction, Scratch and Win (2004). He directed three films that have screened at the Sundance Film Festival: What the Eagle Hears (2000); The Gift (1999); and The Hero (1995), and he was the executive producer and a director for the APTN series Buffalo Tracks.
Shortly before jumping into Moose TV, Farmer completed filming on a new feature film Funny Farm co-starring Colm Feore and Andie MacDowell. Directed by Mary McGuckian, Funny Farm is set in a celebrity drug and alcohol rehab clinic and is a follow-up to McGuckian's experimental satire Rag Tale.
The Gary Farmer Gallery of Contemporary Art celebrated its emergence on June 10, 2006. It is located in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. Farmer performs on the harmonica, and has composed music for independent films. He was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, on the Six Nations Reserve.
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