Filmmaker

Sharon Shattuck is a producer/director/animator with Sweet Fern Productions, an independent production company she founded.  She is also a member of the creative team at Wicked Delicate Films (King Corn, The Greening of Southie, Truck Farm, The City Dark).  Her previous experience includes work with the Field Museum, the WNYC science show ‘Radiolab,’ NPR’s ‘On The Media,’ and the BBC World Service/Stakeholder Forum.  She has an undergraduate degree in forest ecology and biology from the University of Michigan, and a graduate degree in documentary and broadcast journalism from New York University’s Graduate School of Journalism.  Her documentary thesis about beneficial parasites, Parasites: A User’s Guide (2010), was an official selection of the Traverse City Film Festival, the Camden International Film Festival, the Michigan Film Festival, and the International Science Film Festival.  She's currently working on an as-yet-untitled film about gender stereotypes and LGBT families.