Chris Eyre, director of the groundbreaking American Indian film “Smoke Signals,” will be the featured guest speaker during the third annual Old Dominion University Film and Video Festival, “The Kaleidoscopic Lens: Representing Diversity in Film and Television,” April 8-14.

Eyre will discuss the 1998 film, billed as the first feature film directed, co-produced, written and acted by American Indians, following a showing at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 9, at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk.

More than 30 films and events, designed to raise awareness of different cultures and explain the filmmaking process, are scheduled on campus and at the Naro. Guest commentators will be available for questions after many of the presentations.

Other festival highlights include:

•“Hawaii’s Last Queen,” 5 p.m. Saturday, April 8, Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building auditorium – Queen Lili-uokalani faces the U.S. military. Writer/producer Vivian Ducat will be the guest commentator.

•“The Nasty Girl,” 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 9, Naro – A German high school student researches her town’s history and finds the truth about its involvement in the Holocaust. Anna Rosmus, the woman on whom the story is based, will be the guest commentator.

•“Zulu Dawn,” 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, Naro – Zulu warriors defeat British forces in the Battle of Isandhiwana in South Africa; starring Burt Lancaster and Peter O’Toole. Nate Kohn, producer, will be the guest commentator.

•A panel discussion on stereotypes in film will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 13, in the Cape Charles Room of Webb Center, followed by screenings of “Carmen Jones” (1 p.m.), a musical set in an all-black Army camp starring Harry Belafonte, and black exploitation films “Foxy Brown” (3 p.m.) with Pam Grier and “Shaft” (4:45 p.m.), starring Richard Roundtree.

•“Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored,” 7:15 p.m. Thursday, April 13, Naro – a boy faces difficulties growing up in the segregated South under the guidance of his grandfather; directed by Norfolk native Tim Reid. Clifton Taulbert, author of the book that inspired the film, will be the guest commentator.

All on-campus sessions are free. Most films scheduled at the Naro carry an admission fee ($6 for adults for shows at 7 p.m. or later, $4.50 afternoons; senior citizens 65 and older and children 12 and younger, $4.50; Old Dominion students with ID, $1 discount on evening films).

For more information and a complete listing of festival events call 683-3831 or visit the festival’s Web site: web.odu.edu/filmfest.