Marlin Darrah is an American business entrepreneur, award-winning film producer and director, geography lecturer and cinematographer. He's also a musician and screenplay writer. He's been called "The World's Most Traveled Filmmaker" by a producer at National Geographic. Since 1976, Darrah has been executive director of various film production businesses, such as the company International Film & Video, in Oregon and California. He's directed and produced more than 100 theatrical dramatic movies, international documentaries and travel films, in 150 countries on all seven continents, spending almost 15 years in total overseas. For nearly 3 years of that time, Darrah worked-lived in various European countries, i.e. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Slovakia and the U.K.