Carrie Schrader

Bio: Carrie Schrader directed an award-winning short film called Don’t Mess With Texas written by Ethan Coen (Coen bros.). She wrote and directed a feature-length film called The Founders (distributed by Level 33 Films), which won “Best Feature” at AFF and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Carrie recently directed a spot for Netflix and has worked for the likes of AMC and TLC Networks. Her short films and screenplays, such as Boys and Dogs and Kids Are Weird and The Thorny Rose, have won film festival audience awards internationally, and she was labeled one of the "Top Ten Directors To Watch Out For" by . Carrie was a participant at the IFP in NY and was an Outfest Screenwriting Lab fellow. Her pilot The Grind was recently selected for The Orchard Project Episodic Lab, Stowe Story Labs, and placed at AFF. She was recently hired to write two feature-length films and her television pilot has just attached a showrunner! Carrie has a BA in Theater and also has a very expensive but surprisingly useful MFA in directing from Columbia University. She believes spaghetti and meatballs are a perfectly acceptable breakfast choice. She is also the creator of the hysterical and horrible Nicewhitemom videos which explore how white women perpetuate racism.