Actor Carrie Lederer

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From: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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Carrie Lederer is the quintessential one-woman band filmmaker, nicknamed “Carrier Pigeon” for her global reach and decades of on-the-ground storytelling. Her multi-decade career spans unscripted television for major networks, independent documentaries, and nonprofit-driven social impact films across a wide range of genres and locations. Combining cinematographic expertise with journalistic instinct, she creates immersive, human-centered narratives and builds deep connections with the people she documents. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Carrie returns to documentary filmmaking with her short directorial debut, Wild Horses at the Door.

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