Erin Ploss-Campoamor was born in Canada to American parents and raised all over North America in an extended multicultural family, speaking English, Spanish and French. She is an award-winning filmmaker, with experience in documentary, narrative, and television. 

Erin produced a feature length documentary, Las Marthas (PBS/Independent Lens), which the New York Times praised as “a striking alternative portrait of border-town life." She also produced a feature length thriller, Dark Mirror (IFC Films), which broke records as IFC’s top-selling VOD of all time. 

She wrote and directed La Americanita (The American Girl), a short film loosely inspired by her experience growing up with a Cuban-American stepfather, which won two Best Short Film awards. She is the producer and co-writer of Love & Monster Trucks, a feature length narrative film, in development, for which she was a semifinalist for the Sundance Institute's Creative Producing Fellowship and the Sundance Writer’s Institute. Her original TV pilot “#MeToo” was a semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab.

Her most recent film Luciela, is a short narrative about a fiercely independent Mexican American girl who is determined to celebrate the 4th of July with a bang.

Erin lives in Los Angeles with her husband Pablo, their two kids, two cats, and a dog.