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.