Charine Pilar Gonzales

Charine Pilar Gonzales is a Tewa filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo (PoWohGeh Owingeh) and Santa Fe (OgaPogeh), New Mexico. Her most recent film, This Land Carries Us (2025), won the Oscar-qualifying Best Documentary Short award at the 2026 deadCenter Film Festival and is currently featured in the Tewa Nangeh / Tewa Country exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Her other works include PoWohGeh Speaks (2025), the first feature film created entirely in the Tewa language in partnership with San Ildefonso Pueblo, and River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh) (2023), a short film that marked the return of narrative fiction filmmaking to San Ildefonso Pueblo for the first time since the 1980s.

Gonzales co-produced Winding Path (Sundance 2024) and associate-produced People of the West (forthcoming). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Screenwriting) from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a 2026 Forge Project Fellow, 2026 imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Shorts Lab Fellow, 2025 Stowe Story Labs New Voices-New Mexico Fellow, and 2024 Sundance Institute Native Lab Fellow.