Carrie Lederer is a boundary-pushing, award-winning television producer, cinematographer, and independent filmmaker passionate about telling human-centered stories across continents, cultures, and causes. She developed her ability to juggle multiple production roles by creating non-fiction work that spans diverse genres and global locations. As a quintessential one-woman band, Carrie gains a deeper connection to the lives and voices of her subjects.

Her producing, shooting, and editing skills have been featured across major networks including CNN, Discovery, History Channel, Travel Channel, Showtime, National Geographic, NBC, ABC, MTV, Vh1, OWN, TLC, CW Network, Lifetime TV, Oxygen, A&E, ESPN, Scripps News, Ch 4 London, Roku, and Central News Asia (CNA). On Travel Channel’s Not Your Average Travel Guide, Carrie served as host and handled all aspects of production. She has also created social impact films for the United Nations, Smithsonian Institution, and U.S. State Department on HIV/AIDS, biodiversity, and climate change.

Carrie’s work as cinematographer, producer, and editor has contributed to several award-winning documentaries: Tibet in Song (Sundance Special Jury Prize), A Face for Yulce (Freddie, Hugo, CINE Golden Eagle), About Face (Audience Award, Stony Brook), In the Wake of Zaca, and Counting on Democracy.

Wild Horses at the Door is her debut short documentary and has already won both the Best Documentary Short Jury Prize and Audience Award.