Festival is conducted by

• Administration of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region
• Northern Research Forum (NRF)
• Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D.S. Likhachev
• Ethnographic Bureau

Under support of

• Russian Visual Anthropology Association
• Visual Anthropology Centre of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov
• Aboriginal North, Siberia and Far East Association
• “Ethnos” Studio
• Non-fiction Films and TV Association

Financial support

• “Open Society” Institution (Fund of Soros)
• Urengoygazprom
• Nortgaz
• Yamalelectrosvyas (Yamal Electrify Company)
• Show-centre “Zolotoi YAMAL” (“Gold Yamal”)
• Yamal Stock Centre
• Yamal Mining Company

Informative support

• All-Russia Public TV and Radio Company (ARSTRC), Moscow
• Public TV and Radio Company “Yamal”
• Public TV and Radio Company “Yamal-region”
• Municipal unitary informative company “Severnii Veter” (“Northern Wind”)
• Magazine “Severnie prostori” (“Northern Space”), Moscow
• Newspaper “Krasnii Sever” (“Red North”), Salekhard
• Newspaper “Polarnii Krug” (“Arctic Circle”), Salekhard
• Newspaper “Tumenskie Izvestia” (“Tyumen News”), Tyumen
• Newspaper “Tumenskaya Pravda” (“Tyumen Truth”), Tyumen

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Yuri Neelov  -  president of the Organizing Committee, governor of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region
• Alexei Arteev   -  vice-governor of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region
• Vladimir Gushcha  -  Culture, Youth Policy and Sports Department chief (Administration of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region)
• Victor Kolesnik  -  Information, Social and Politic Studies Department chief of Administration of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region
• Yuri Kukevich  -  president of Public Company “Yamal”
• Nicolay Shevchik  -  Education Department chief of Administration of Yamal-Nenets autonomous region

PRESIDENT OF FESTIVAL

Andrei Golovnev  -  member of the Russian Academy of Science, anthropologist, film director

MANAGEMENT

• Alexander Dobrinin  -  executive producer of Festival, assistant president for TV and Radio “Yamal” Public Company
• Marina Yuzhaninova  -  director of Festival

SELECTION COMMITTEE

• Andrei Shemyakin  -  president of Committee, candidate of philology (Science Research Institute of Cinematography)
• Eugenia Andreeva  -  Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D.S. Likhachev
• Tatiana Emeliyanova  -  magazine “Severnie Prostori” (“Northern Space”), Moscow
• Vladimir Klays  -  doctor of philology (Institute of the World Literature named after A.M. Gorky of the Russian Academy of Science)
• Olga Khristoforova  -  candidate of culturology (Russian State humanitarian Institute)

JURY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILMS COMPETITION

• Karen Gevorkyan  -   president of the Jury, film director
• Asen Balikci  -  professor (Balkan Anthropologist Association)
• Natalia Zhukovskaya  -  doctor of history (Anthropology and Ethnology Institute of Russian Science Academy)
• Yuri Kukevich  -  president of Public TV and Radio Company “Yamal”
• Vladimir Magidov  -  doctor of history (Russian State humanitarian Institute)

JURY OF TV–PROGRAM COMPETITION

• Sergey Torchinsky  -  president of Jury, assistant management chief TV and Radio Department of ARSTRC
• Leonid Guselnikov  -  president of Public TV and Radio Company “Yamal-region”
• Elena Novik  -  doctor of philology (Russian State humanitarian Institute)
• Rene Luzhiza   -  doctor of philosophy (Bratislava University)
• Alexei Katunin  -  director of animation films studio “Solnechnii Dom” (“Sunny House”)

WORKING GROUP

• Alexei Gurin
• Valerie Eremin
• Ekaterina Zakharova
• Svetlana Ilinskaya
• Eugenie Klodt
• Afanasie Makovnev
• Sergei Mikryukov
• Yulia Matronitskaya
• Nadezhda Noskova
• Irina Pshenichnaya
• Leonid Taragupta
• Nadezhda Shirokova