SHARON SHATTUCK is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and podcaster. Her film PICTURE A SCIENTIST (2020), about women scientists fighting sexual harassment, was nominated for a 2022 News & Documentary EMMY and was distributed on NOVA (PBS) and Netflix. FROM THIS DAY FORWARD (2015), an autobiographical film about growing up with a transgender parent, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was distributed on POV (PBS), Netflix, SundanceNow, Amazon, and iTunes. She’s the cohost of the Spotify podcast CONVICTION: AMERICAN PANIC, about a family caught up in the satanic panic of the 1990s — the subject of the podcast was exonerated in 2023 due to their reporting. She was the series story producer on the EMMY-nominated Netflix Original Documentary series FOLLOW THIS! and the co-creator of the EMMY-nominated New York Times Op Docs short film series ANIMATED LIFE. Sharon is a DOC NYC and HBO Documentaries’ 40 UNDER 40 alumna. She has degrees in forest ecology and journalism and deep roots in Michigan, though she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and toddler.
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