JOANELLE ROMERO, short-listed for Academy Award, is an actor, artist, award-winning director, producer, writer of film, television and digital. A member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Screen Actors Guild/Aftra.
“Hollywood has Oscar, Broadway has Tony, Television has the Emmy, and Indian Country has the RNCI Red Nation Film Award of Excellence™”
Joanelle Romero
About Joanelle
JOANELLE ROMERO is an American multihyphenate, media proprietor, an acclaimed actress in films and television, Award winning director, producer, singer/songwriter, and humanitarian.
Joanelle is of Spanish-Sephardic and Apache lineage with familial ties belonging to the Pawnee, Pojoaque, Diné, Paiute, Southern Ute, Haudenosaunee, Mescalero Apache, Jicarilla Apache and Lakota Nations.
Joanelle’s father was born on the Jicarilla Reservation and her great-grandma from her mother’s father side was born on the Mescalero Reservatio
The Journey You Must Know
1960s
Family Roots Strong in Entertainment Industry
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1960s
Family In Politics
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1977
The Girl Called Hatter Fox
First film about the life of a contemporary Native woman
First time a Native woman played a title role.
1970 - Present
Producer of Concert Series & Special Events
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1978
Discovered by Leonard Cohen
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1989
Powwow Highway
The film that changed the Native Narrative forever
1990
Red Nation Films
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1991
Making History in Music Industry
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1995 - Present
Red Nation Celebration Institute
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1995 - Present
Red Nation International Film Festival
The Authentic Voice of American Indian & Indigenous Cinema
1995 - Present
RNCI Red Nation Awards
The Authentic Voice of American Indian & Indigenous Cinema
1997
Sarah McLachlan
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2003 - Present
Native Women in Film & Television in All Media
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2007
Help The Earth
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2008
RNCI Human Rights Inititatives(Only One Water)
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2009
RNCI & Summit Entertainment
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2015
Dalai Lama 80th Birthday Celebrations
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2016
President Obama Invites Joanelle Romero to Washington D.C.
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