Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker now living in New York. He was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on December 27, 1964. In the USA since 1980, he studied film at Harvard and Wesleyan colleges and then got an MFA at The American Film Institute. Later he was accepted to the Sundance Screenwriting Lab.
His student film Every Day Is A Beautiful Day (1990) was nominated for a best Student Film Academy award. His three feature films, Star Maps (1997), Chuck & Buck (2000) and The Good Girl (2002) were funded independently, premiered, and sold at the Sundance Film Festival. Chuck & Buck won an Independent Spirit Award.
He has directed for TV: Homicide, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under and The Office. Arteta has taught at the Sundance Directing Labs.
His current project in development include an update of Lukas Moodysson's film TOGETHER, a comedy called HIMELFARB and adaptations of Meg Mullins' THE RUG MERCHANT and Dave Eggers' YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY.
Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker now living in New York. He was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on December 27, 1964. In the USA since 1980, he studied film at Harvard and Wesleyan colleges and then got an MFA at The American Film Institute. Later he was ...
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