writer, Producer, Director: Sharon arteaga
Sharon Arteaga is a first-generation Mexican-American filmmaker from Corpus Christi, Texas, who convinced her mom to buy her a video camera instead of a Quinceañera. Included in NALIP’s 2019 List of Latinx Directors to Know, Arteaga has won numerous short film competitions including the 2021 HBO Latinx short Film Competition. Arteaga was a 2019 Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lens finalist for her short screenplay IN TOW, which also won runner up at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival South Pitch, was a Semifinalist in ScreenCraft’s Film Fund and most recently, was awarded the 2021 Mexican-American Cultural Education Foundation Filmmaker Grant. Arteaga is currently developing her first feature film. She is also a passionate educator who loves empowering others to also tell their stories through film.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The conflicts in my stories are usually based on either generational, linguistic, or cultural differences between people. I love forcing my characters to interact in compact spaces like laundry rooms, cars, small airplanes, and mobile homes. Through my films, I discover a catharsis towards my conflicted upbringing as a first-generation Mexican American, and I reconcile with my mother, my grandmother, and myself. And I like to have a nice laugh with an audience while I am at it.