TAMIU, Laredo Film Society to Host Upcoming Film Screening with Award-Winning Filmmaker Sept. 18
An upcoming film screening at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) will feature HBO awarding-winning filmmaker and Texas native Sharon Arteaga.
The screening and Q&A session, “Film by Film: A South Texas Filmmaker’s Story,” is happening Thursday, Sept. 18 from 1 – 3 p.m. at the TAMIU Student Center Auditorium.
Admission is free and open to the public. The event is made possible through the University, in partnership with the Laredo Film Society.
Arteaga is a first-generation Mexican American filmmaker from Corpus Christi, TX, who convinced her mom to buy her a video camera instead of a Quinceañera.
A passionate educator who loves empowering others to also tell their stories through film,
Arteaga has won numerous short film competitions including the 2021 HBO Latinx short Film Competition. She was featured in the 2019 National Association of Latino Independent Producers Directors to Know.
Arteaga was also 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. She was a semifinalist in ScreenCraft’s Film Fund and was awarded the 2021 Mexican American Cultural Education Foundation Filmmaker Grant.
Arteaga is currently developing her first feature film.
For more information, contact Marcela Moran, TAMIU associate professor of Communication at amoran@tamiu.edu or the Laredo Film Society at hello@laredofilm.org.
