CARRIE SCHRADER

Carrie Schrader is an award-winning writer-director of short films, commercials, and feature-length films. She co-directed the short film Don't Mess with Texas with Ethan Coen and directed the Netflix commercial Batdad: Battle For Bedtime. Carrie also wrote and co-directed the feature-length documentary The Founders (Peacock, Amazon), and currently makes her living from multiple feature-length film write-for-hire contracts.

Carrie's short films have won film festival awards internationally, and she’s honed both leadership and collaborative spirit in the Orchard Project Episodic Lab, the Outfest Screenwriting Lab, IFP, and the Austin Film Festival. She is the creator of #nicewhitemom videos, which critically explore with comedy how white women perpetuate racism. Carrie has a ridiculously expensive, but surprisingly useful, MFA in directing from Columbia University and will be forever proud of her early days as a theater nerd.

Upcoming Events with CARRIE SCHRADER

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Shot by Shot Take 2: Camera Sketch/Pre-visualization
Aug 10
Shot by Shot Take 2: Camera Sketch/Pre-visualization

In this hands-on class, you will learn how to pre-visualize a scene and translate storyboards/shot lists into a cinematically engaging, visually compelling series of shots that engage the viewer. You will be able to bring storyboards for a 2-3 minute scene to class, either from your script or a published screenplay, which the Instructor will approve before the course starts. 

Shot by Shot Directing Workshop (Virtual)
Jul 20
Shot by Shot Directing Workshop (Virtual)

A great director knows how to emotionally motivate their shots in a way that captivates and grounds their viewers in the EXPERIENCE of the story. In this online version of Shot by Shot: Directing Workshop, we dive deep into cinematic language to give you the tools to translate written beats into dynamic, moving, memorable, visual moments on the screen. This skills you learn in this workshop will be your secret weapon in your quest to create movie magic. 

Shot by Shot: Directing Workshop
Mar 9
Shot by Shot: Directing Workshop

We’ll review and learn the building blocks of cinematic language, and use those to break down a script, beat by beat, to prepare you to not only be a good director but a GREAT director who creates unique, compelling, cinematic masterpieces. This course will fundamentally change the way you approach storytelling.