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'''Randy Redroad''' is a film director, film editor, writer and songwriter. He is best known for his films ''[[The Doe Boy]]'' (2001) and ''[[Among Ravens]]'' (2014).

==Early life and education==
Redroad was born Randolph Kendall Snapp on Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, IL., where his father was temporarily stationed for flight training. His family returned to Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, TX. two weeks after he was born. He moved to [[New York City]] in the mid 1980s, where he worked as a bike messenger and, later, a waiter, eventually becoming interested in filmmaking, because it was the one art form that contained all the others. Redroad dropped out of college after two years, and signed up for a ten-month filmmaking workshop for people of color at [[Third World Newsreel]].<ref name="singer">{{cite book|last1=Singer|first1=Beverly R.|title=Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Video and Film|url=https://archive.org/details/wipingwarpaintof00sing|url-access=limited|date=2001|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=9780816631605|pages=[https://archive.org/details/wipingwarpaintof00sing/page/n69 53]–54}}</ref> Redroad is Indigenous{{what|date=October 2024}} on his mother's side and of Scottish descent on his father's.<ref name="barker">{{cite book|last1=Barker|first1=Deborah|last2=McKee|first2=Kathryn B|title=American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary|date=2011|publisher=University of Georgia Press|location=Athens|isbn=9780820337241|page=261|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pgBQ-YnHylMC&pg=PA275|accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref>

==Film career==
Redroad completed the films ''Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter'' (1991) and ''Haircuts Hurt'' (1992) because of his participation with Third World Newsreel. He was given film directing [[Artist-in-residence|residency]] from [[Sundance Institute]] in 1994. In the same year, he received the Rockefeller Intercultural Media grant, and a New York State Council For The Arts grant. He used the money to make his award winning short film "High Horse", about urban Indians living in New York City. His first feature film ''[[The Doe Boy]]'' (2001) was shown at the [[Sundance Film Festival]].<ref name=singer /> ''Doe Boy'' is based partly on Randy's own personal experience. The film's title comes from an incident when he accidentally shot a doe while hunting with a "buck only" license with his father.<ref name="pop">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_9w4eXZNg4C&pg=PA95|title=American Indians and Popular Culture: Media, sports, and politics|date=2012|publisher=Santa Barbara|isbn=9780313379918|location=Praeger|page=95|last1=Hoffman|first1=Elizabeth DeLaney|accessdate=13 March 2016}}</ref>

Redroad is a founding member of the award-winning [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaf-2Zwyb-qyZKjtozHeQsQ StyleHorse Collective], a group of indigenous artists who work with tribal organizations to create inspiring and educational film and video projects. StyleHorse Collective are the creators of the popular [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBhTOkGr6_c&list=PL2flOGWRc8bh1UbG6G_r0lkpq07qh1UuN Powwow Sweat] series and the award-winning music video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0iwY6YjSk&t=199s "We Shall Remain."]

==Awards==
''[[The Doe Boy]]''  received 14 awards, including the Perrier Bubbling Under-First Time Filmmaker award at the Taos Talking Pictures film festival. Redroad also received the Sundance NHK International Filmmaker award and was nominated for the IFP Gotham outstanding directorial debut.<ref name="list">{{cite book|last1=Fairbanks Molin|first1=Paulette|last2=Hirschfelder|first2=Arlene B|title=The extraordinary book of Native American lists|date=2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=9780810877092|page=367|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKvZNzrK1ksC&pg=PA367}}</ref> "The Infiltrators" won both the Audience and Innovator Awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

==Selected filmography==
*''Cow Tipping: The Militant Indian Waiter'' (1991)
*''Haircuts Hurt'' (1992)
*''High Horse'' (1994)
*''[[The Doe Boy]]'' (2001)
*''Moccasin Flats'' (2003)
*''133 Skyway'' (2006)
*''Out Of The Blu''e (2007)
*''Ibid'' (2008)
*''First Circle (''2010'')''
*''Earth Meets Wind'' (2011)
*''[[Beautiful Wave]]'' (2012)
*''[[Among Ravens]]'' (2014)
*''We Shall Remain'' (2014)
*''Powwow Sweat'' (2015)
*''Wind Walkers'' (2015)
*''Everybody Has An Andy Dick Story'' (2016)
*''[[Edge of the World (2019 film)|Edge Of The World]]'' (''2019'')
*''The Infiltrators'' (''2019'')
*''Being Michelle'' (''2022 '')
==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=nm0715164}}
*[http://www.randyredroad.com/ Redroad's personal website]
*[https://vimeo.com/randyredroad Redroad at Vimeo]

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