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Joanelle Romero is an American filmmaker and actress. Romero is the founder and president of Red Nation Television Network and Red Nation International Film Festival. Romero's film American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian was short-listed for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Branch category.

In 2007, she was designated a Women's History Month honoree by the National Women's History Project.


Personal life
Romero was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1957. Her mother, actress (1936–2012), was born Ida Mae Aragón in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joanelle grew up in Los Angeles, California, and her biography states: "Joanelle is born Spanish-Sephardic with Apache Ancestry, a relative of Pawnee, Dine, Paiute, Pojoaque, Southern Ute, Haudenosaunee and kinship to Lakota and Jicarilla Apache." She has stated that she is "a citizen of -Chiricahua Apache, Dinétah, Nations and is Spanish ." In 2016, Native News Online wrote that she was "born , and Spanish Sephardic Jew".


Career
Romero was shortlisted for an Academy Award, for her documentary short, American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian, narrated by . Romero directed, produced, wrote and scored the music for the film that compares the with the United States government's treatment of American Indians and the lasting effects on contemporary culture.

In 1991 Romero founded Spirit World Productions. She was inspired to create Spirit World Productions due to the lack of Native representation in the entertainment industry. Spirit World released American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian, a narrated by . Romero directed, produced, wrote and scored the music for the film that compares the with the United States' government treatment of American Indians and the lasting effects on contemporary culture. As an actress Romero has appeared in films including The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977 TV movie based on the novel by Marilyn Harris), 1982's and Parasite, and .

Romero founded the nonprofit organization Red Nation Celebration Institute (RNCI) in 1995. In 2005 she received the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award for "the vision to see the truth … and the courage to speak it". Romero started the first Native American Heritage Month in Los Angeles in November 2005, garnering her the title "The First Lady" of American Indian Heritage Month.

Romero has been a member of the American Film Academy since 2016.


Filmography

Film
1977The Girl Called Hatter FoxHatter FoxTV movie
1980RoughnecksWomanTV movie
1982Young Prostitute
ParasiteBo
The Legend of Walks Far WomanFire WingTV movie
Life of the Party: The Story of BeatriceJulieTV movie
1983The Horse Dealer's DaughterYoung WomanShort
1984The Mystic WarriorZitkalaTV movie
1985City LimitsWoman in Desert
1986VendettaElena
1989Bonnie Red Bow
1991Miracle in the WildernessLittle DeerTV movie
2004Victoria Nez
2021Native Woman


Television
1979InsightLauraEpisode: "When, Jenny? When?"
1982Hill Street BluesMariaEpisode: "Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers"
1983Cutter to HoustonStarrEpisode: "From the Smallest Crystal, from the Smallest Stone"
1992Murder, She WroteAlice CheeEpisode: "Night of the Coyote"


Video games
1996Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon MurderAnna Elk Moon


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