If you're having trouble viewing this email, see it on the Web.   April 2010 • Notes From the Director • Festival Call for Entries • All Roads Past Events • Seed Grants Notes From the Director (Pronounced o si yo and is the Cherokee word for hello.) As we enjoy spring, we want to thank everyone who continues to support us, the All Roads staff, in all our endeavors. Here's a brief summary of what All Roads accomplished last year and what we are planning for 2010. In 2009, we partnered with FOX Entertainment and Native Media Technology Network (NMTN) to train college students in film and orientate them to the industry; presented an All Roads showcase on the UCLA campus and at Washington, D.C.; hosted screenings in the LA Film Festival and AFI Fest; and partnered with the D.C. African Diaspora Film Series to show films at National Geographic headquarters. We started 2010 off with a bang, partnering with Women In Film (WIF) to annually award a film grant to a woman filmmaker for best documentary during the Sundance Film Festival. We plan to launch a new venture called All Roads on Tour. And everyone can look forward to the All Roads Film Festival to be held September 28–October 3, 21010 in Washington, D.C., at National Geographic headquarters. So stay tuned! Hózhó, Francene J. Blythe (Diné, Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota, Eastern Band Cherokee) Director, All Roads Film Project Festival Call for Entries – Deadline is April 30, 2010! It’s not to late to get your submissions in. Click here to download your submission form. All Roads Past Events Third Annual Global Glimpses The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the All Roads Film Project presented Global Glimpses, a series of screenings of all the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film category in the 82nd Academy Awards®. This year we had the honor to have presenter Ron Yerxa, who has produced such films as Little Miss Sunshine and Cold Mountain among others. If you missed the screenings, you can read about them from the perspective of our All Roads intern, Mariana Olmos. Women Hold Up Half the Sky Spring Series All Roads Film Project presents Women Hold Up Half the Sky Spring Series. Three women filmmakers presented an expressive collection of works from a distinct perspective. The three films included were: Niloofar Directed by Sabine El Gemayel Shadows Directed by Mary Ayubi 2501 Migrants: A Journey Directed by Yolanda Cruz   The All Roads Film Project presented the following films at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital: The Two Horses of Genghis Khan Directed by Byambasuren Davaa Seed Grants Awardees from February 2010 (first quarter) My Island & Me Julia Anderson Yap, Federated States of Micronesia Funded for Production Tmoulou (Our Land): Stewards of Our Land Kelly Terbasket Syilx, Canada Funded for Production Running After the Reindeer Aleksei Y. Vakhrushev Chukchi, Russia Funded for Production Apache 8 Sande Zeig White Mountain Apache, USA Funded for Production Donate Now to the All Roads Film Project.     If you received this email from a friend and would like to subscribe to this or other National Geographic emails, click here. Unsubscribe | Change Email Address | Update Email Preferences | Privacy Policy | Mission Statement | NGS Customer Service Click the unsubscribe link above to be removed from our email program, or send your request to National Geographic; Attn: E-newsletter Program; 1145 17th Street N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20036. Copyright © 2010 National Geographic Society. All Rights Reserved. To ensure you receive your National Geographic e-mails, please add ngs@newsletters.nationalgeographic.com to your address book now.