DIRECTORS

Writer-Director Erin Cantelo tells devastatingly uplifting stories about women healing from grief or trauma, with the aim to break your heart wide open. She has spent the majority of her adult life working in various crew positions on film, TV, and commercial sets, racking up thousands of hours of first-hand experience behind and in front of the camera.

With a belief that you must live stories worth telling, Erin is prone to adventure, including a 4-month solo trip to Southeast Asia where she took a 5-day motorbike trip in rural Laos alone, a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Southern Thailand, and a 16-day cargo ship ride home from Hong Kong to California. The latter of which inspired her most recent feature script, CARGO, which is a Stowe Story Labs and WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Labs Finalist.

Erin is a queer, neurodiverse, Muppet at heart, native-Californian based in Los Angeles. She loves tacos, tea, chatting up strangers, and her unbroken-12-years-and-counting, daily meditation practice.