Charine Pilar Gonzales is a Tewa filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her recent work includes the short experimental doc This Land Carries Us (2025) featured in the Tewa Nangeh / Tewa Country exhibit at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. PoWohGeh Speaks (2025) is the first feature film created entirely in the Tewa language, created in partnership with her Pueblo de San Ildefonso. Her narrative short film River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh) (2023) and short doc Our Quiyo: Maria Martinez (2022) have screened internationally, including Māoriland Film Festival, Future of Film is Female, SFiFF, etc. She co-produced Winding Path (Sundance 2024) and serves as associate producer on the upcoming Boardwalk Pictures series, People of the West.

Charine is producer for Native Lens, a collaborative series between KSUT Tribal Radio and RMPBS. She will graduate with an MFA in Creative Writing (Screenwriting) from IAIA in 202, where she earned a BFA in Cinematic Arts. She also has a BA in English – Communications from Fort Lewis College. Charine is a 2026 imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Shorts Lab Fellow, a 2025 Stowe Story Lab New Voices New Mexico Fellow, and a 2024 Sundance Institute Indigenous Program Native Lab Fellow. She was also recently selected for the inaugural Netflix / Stagecoach Director’s Shadow Masterclass in Albuquerque. Represented by Rain Management Group, she lives in Santa Fe with family and her chunky orange tabby cat, Cheddar.