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“The aim of the All Roads Film Project is to provide indigenous filmmakers with opportunities to tell their stories in their own voices. The project is an exciting new forum for indigenous and minority-culture storytellers to bring their lives, experiences, and cultures to new audiences.”

—Terry Garcia, Executive Vice President for Mission Programs, National Geographic Society

About the All Roads Film Project

Photo: Woman smiling

Miss Navajo, 2007

All Roads is a National Geographic initiative created to provide an international platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture artists to share their cultures, stories, and perspectives through the power of film and photography. All Roads is an exciting, groundbreaking film festival, photography program, and film grant program rolled into one.

Whether you’re an indigenous artist wanting to tell your story, a filmmaker wanting to make a difference, an industry representative looking for the next age of storytelling, or an audience eager to learn more about our world, you’ll find what you’re looking for when you travel All Roads.

International Film Nights
All Roads hosts evenings of international film at National Geographic Society Headquarters in Washington, D.C. To learn more about upcoming events at Society headquarters.

All Roads On the Road
All Roads is on the move! All Roads takes programs from its annual festival on the road, traveling to places around the globe. Stay tuned for upcoming dates and locations.

Film Advisory Board
Merata Mita, Chair, Independent Filmmaker, Professor; Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawaii
Mark Bauman, Co-Chair, Executive Vice President, National Geographic Digital Studio, Vice President, National Geographic Missions Media Programs
Alicia B. Adams, Vice President, Dance and International Programming, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Gerald J. Alcantar, Vice President Diversity Development, Fox Entertainment Group
David Beal, President, National Geographic Entertainment
Chris Blackwell, CEO, Palm Pictures
Juliet Blake, Senior Vice President Production, National Geographic U.S. Channel
Frank Blythe, Senior Partner and Executive Producer, Thunder Mountain Media, Native Media Technology Network
Stockard Channing, Actor
Gotham Chopra, Journalist, Author, and Producer
Cliff Curtis, Actor/Producer
Myriam Despujoulets, Independent Filmmaker, Programmer, Seminars and Administrator, Fellow Affairs, American Film Institute
David M. Fox, Attorney, Myman Abell Fineman Fox Greenspan Light, LLP
Terry Garcia, Executive Vice President, Mission Programs, National Geographic Society
Francisco Gonzalez Compean, Executive Producer, Amores Perros
Kay Hill, Independent Television Executive
Shekhar Kapur, Director
Robert Kovacik, Anchor and Reporter
Sarah Lash, Director of Acquisitions, IFC Films
Sarah Laskin, Vice President, Public Programs, National Geographic Society
Spike Lee, Actor, Director, and Producer
Dylan Leiner, Executive Vice President of Acquisitions and Productions, Sony Classics
Adam Leipzig, President, Production, National Geographic Feature Films
Greg McGruder, Vice-President, National Geographic Live and Museum
Alanis Obomsawin, Director
Lou Diamond Phillips, Actor
Leah Purcell, Actor and Director, Bungabura Productions
Reza, Photographer, Founder of Aina World
Sally Riley, Indigenous Branch Manager, Australian Film Commission
N. Bird Runningwater, Sundance Film Festival
Bain Stewart, Film Producer, Founder of Bungabura Productions
Sydney Suissa, Executive Vice President, Content, National Geographic Channels International
Kiefer Sutherland, Actor, Director, Producer
Ruth Vitale, President, First Look Pictures
Forest Whitaker, Academy Award-Winning� Actor, Director, Producer
Lou Yan, Independent Film Executive
Bradley Yonover, Principal, M101

Photography Program Advisory Board
Shahidul Alam, Founder of Drik Picture Library in Bangladesh
Jan Arnesen, Director Exhibitions, United Nations Headquarters
Reid Callanan, Director, Santa Fe Workshops
Lou Desiderio, Photographic Industry Consultant
Peter Howe, Contributing Editor of Digital Journalist, Former Director of Photography, Life Magazine
Chris Johns, Editor in Chief, National Geographic Magazine
Audrey Jonckheer, Director International Special Projects, Kodak
Peter Magubane, South African Photographer
Greg McGruder, Vice-President, National Geographic Live and Museum
Larry McNeil, Photographer, 2006 All Roads Photo Awardee
Andy Patrick, Director of Fifty Crows, CEO LiveBooks
Robert Pledge, President, Contact Press Images
Reza, Photographer & National Geographic Fellow
Mary Virgina Swanson, Educator & Photographic Consultant
Pablo Corral Vega, Ecuadorian Photographer
Victoria Vestal, Contributing Editor, After Capture magazine

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