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. Recognized in NALIP’s 2019 List of “Latinx Directors to Know,” Arteaga’s work playfully incorporates themes of generational, linguistic, and cultural differences between people.

She has won numerous short film competitions, including the 2021 HBO Latinx Short Film Competition, with her films When I Grow Up, Plane Pretend, and When You Clean a Stranger's Home.

She 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 was awarded grants from the Austin Film Soceity, the Santa Fe Film Institute, and the Mexican-American Cultural Education Foundation. Arteaga is a passionate educator who loves empowering others to also tell their own stories through film.