One of Indie Wire’s “Top Ten Filmmakers You Should Know”
Carrie Schrader is an award-winning writer-director who is currently developing a one-hour drama pilot with A Really Good Home Pictures, the company behind "Unstoppable," produced by Amazon/Artist’s Equity. She is known for co-directing "Don't Mess With Texas" alongside Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen from the Coen brothers, as well as the Netflix commercial "Batdad: Battle For Bedtime," and the feature film "The Founders," which is available on Peacock. Her television pilot "Phoenix" recently won the Blacklist's Georgia LIST prize. Carrie supports herself through multiple write-for-hire contracts, specializing in adapting real-life stories for film and television. She has a ridiculously expensive but surprisingly useful MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University and will be forever proud of her early days as a theater nerd.
WRITING
PHOENIX Drama TV pilot JUST WONT BLACKLIST AWARD!
Written by Carrie Schrader
Phoenix is a one-hour drama based on true events about a woman in the rural south who robs banks disguised as a businessman. When Phoenix and her lovable train-wreck of a best friend kidnap a newly sober ex-cop who has blown their cover, the ungainly trio must set out on an addiction-fueled race to outrun the law and their own tortured pasts.
SAVING CLARISSA
FEATURE FILM: In Development
Written by Carrie Schrader & Cheryl Williamson
Based on true events, Saving Clarissa is a drama about a dutiful wife and mother who finally pursues her long-lost dream of becoming a writer, but must face her past demons in order to save herself and her family from a deadly narcissist.
THIS I KNOW
FEATURE FILM: In Development
Written by Carrie Schrader and LaLa Halsema
Julia’s seemingly perfect life unravels when she’s forced to question her Evangelical community and sets off on a road trip of discovery with her teenage daughter.
THE GRIND Dramedy TV pilot
Written by Carrie Schrader
When Rachel Basi blows up her successful New York life, she returns to Atlanta, where she fights to transform herself and others by turning her father’s old-school sex toy shop into a sex-positive empire.
