DSXSO Artists
2012

MIGUEL ALVAREZ is an engineer, writer, photographer and award-winning filmmaker. He has received awards from the Directors’ Guild of America, Panavision’s Emerging Filmmaker program, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, and the TexasFilmmakers Production Fund for his previous films, Tadpoles, Veterans, KID and Mnemosyne Rising. A native of San Antonio, Texas, he currently resides in Austin where he teaches at the University of Texas while completing his first screenplay, La Perdida.

For more information visit: www.migalvarez.com
When SHARON ARTEGA turned fifteen, she convinced her parents that a video camera was a better investment than the Quinceanera 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 2009. While in school, she produced "Duplex," a short film which won the Shorts Competition at the Binational Film Festival in El Paso, Texas. Her Undergraduate Thesis "hands." was an Official Selection for the Imago Film Festival, the Phoenix Int'l Christian film festival, and a Finalist in New York's Faith Film Festival.

"When I Grow Up" is her first short outside of the school system. It won the TAMI Award at 2010's Cine Las Americas, an Audience Award at 2011 SXSW Reel Women's Showcase. It was an Official Selection to 2011 CineSol and November 2011 Napa Valley Film Festival and screened at the 2010 NALIP conference in Santa Monica, the 2011 Center for Mexican American Studies & Research Conference in San Antonio, and 2011 MALI's Women's Film and Performing Arts Conference. Sharon's next short is a story about a group of children avoiding checkpoint via an aircraft. She also writes poetry and loves God a lot.

For more information visit: www.facebook.com/sharon.arteaga
MARU BUENDIA-SENTIES, winner of the Cary Grant Film Award by the Princess Grace Foundation (2007), obtained her MFA in Film Production at the University of Texas at Austin in December 2008, and worked for 3 years at Troublemaker Studios in the VFX Department. Her award-winning films showcase her writing and directing as she creates stories that portray deep interpersonal connections and unique idiosyncrasies that connect us all as humans.

For more information visit: www.marubuendia.com
SERGIO CARVAJAL is a Venezuelan-American artist, filmmaker, performer and songwriter. He has written and directed an array of narrative, documentary, and experimental shorts which have been featured in festivals such as Tribeca, SXSW, Traverse City, among many others.

For more information visit: www.iamfacundo.com
Award-winning Mexican-born film director ANGELA TORRES CAMARENA is devoted to creating meaningful films that explore social issues from a poetic perspective. Every one of her short films has been selected at international film festivals around the globe. In 2009, she won the Changemaker award by HBO at the Media That Matters Film Festival. Her films draw on her background as a fiction writer and her work in TV commercials and institutional videos.

For more information visit: www.angelatorrescamarena.com
MARIO TRONCOSO is a filmmaker and a public television producer. He was born in Madrid, Spain and is now based in Austin, TX where he works for PBS. He began his film career as a writer before moving to Houston, TX in early 2000. There he soon joined a number of local artists and begun producing videos. With extensive agency and production company experience, Mario has worked on productions across many formats over a period of 9 years ranging from advertising to documentaries and fiction. He has written and directed To My Baby (2005), El Sentido de las Lagrimas (2007), Naïve (2010), Clowns Never Lie (2011), and Ebrima (2012). Mario studied Film Production and Latino Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

For more information visit: www.thetreeandthebear.com
GABRIELA YEPES started as a television producer for the Peruvian National Broadcast Service (the Peruvian equivalent of American PBS). In 2004, she received a Fulbright Fellowship and moved to the United States to attend graduate film school. Her short films have screened in film festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas. "Gaby" has worked also as assistant director and production manager in films in America and Eastern Europe. She holds a B.A. from the Communications School at the University of Lima, Peru, and an MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

For more information visit: http://danzak.wordpress.com/