Episode 5: Hands
When Sharon Arteaga turned fifteen, she convinced her parents that a video camera was a better investment than the Quinceañera they wanted her to have. She wrote and directed short films using her church youth group as cast, crew, and producers.
She received her B.S. in Radio, Television, Film in May 2009. While in school, she produced “Duplex,” a short film which won the Shorts Competition at the Binational Film Festival in El Paso, Texas. “hands.” was Sharon’s Undergraduate Thesis film. It was an Official Selection for the Imago Film Festival, New York’s Faith Film Festival, and is currently still in its festival
run.
Sharon’s latest short film, “When I Grow Up,” was completed in April 2010. It screened at this year’s NALIP Conference in Santa Monica, California, and won the Texas Archive of Moving Image (TAMI) award at Cine Las Americas international film festival.
She is currently writing two short films she plans to shoot by August and is writing 80 Candles,
a feature she would like to shoot late 2011. She loves God, a lot.