Who is Erin Lee Carr? | Erin Lee Carr Biography and Wiki
Erin Lee Carr is a documentary film director, writer, and producer from the United States. She is best known for her HBO documentaries Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop and Mommy Dead and Dearest.
She was listed in Variety’s Documentaries to watch in 2015. Recently, she was named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list of most influential people in media. She is partial to finding stories that pertain to the internet and the people that use it.
Carr finds issues and subjects that throw light on to a larger issue. She describes her style as showing connections to larger issues without having to encompass every little part of the story into a short video or documentary.
Erin Lee Carr Age and Birthday
Erin was born on April 15, 1988, in Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on April 15th every year. Carr will be 33 years old on Apr. 15th 2021.
Erin Lee Carr Height and Weight
Erin stands at an average height and moderate weight. Lee appears to be quite tall in stature if her photos, relative to her surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding Erin actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update Erin information once it is out.
Erin Lee Carr Education
Carr studied Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erin Lee Carr Family
Erin father is David Carr and her mother is Anna. Her father was a New York Times media columnist. She has a twin sister named Meagan. Erin and her twin sister Meagan were born two and a half months early. Their parents lost custody of the twins as a result of drug-related problems. Subsequently, the twins were placed under foster care for one summer. Upon his rehab completion, their father regained physical custody of the girls.
In 1994, he married Jill Rooney who became the girls’ step-mother. The family lived in Minneapolis in Minnesota. She has a small step-sister named Maddie from their father’s marriage to Jill Rooney. She cites her father as her biggest fan until his sudden death in 2015.
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- Full Name: Erin Lee Carr
- Age: 32 years (2020)
- Date of Birth: April 15, 1988
- Place of Birth: Minneapolis, MN
- Education: Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Birthday: April 15
- Nationality: American
- Father’s Name: David Carr
- Mother’s Name: Anna
- Siblings: Meagan (twin sister)
- Spouse: Not Available
- Children: Not Available
- Height: Average
- Weight: Average
- Profession: Documentary film director, writer, and producer
- Known For: Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop and Mommy Dead and Dearest
- Net worth: Not Available
Erin Lee Carr career
Through a 2010 internship, she began working at Canadian-American print magazine, VIce. This quickly turned into a job after her graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked at Vice for the better part of three years.
She rose through the ranks, from intern to an Associate Producer position for Vice’s Motherboard. The motherboard is a sub-set online magazine and video channel that focuses on the intersection of technology, people and science. A favourite of hers was covering ‘weirdos and the internet’.
She became an assistant producer and a producer of the 2012 series, Spaced Out. The series was developed for Motherboard. It was intended as a 360-degree look at space and the people who love it, explore it and wonder about it. The series consists of twelve videos, nine of which she helped create. She helped in producing UFO sightings in Colorado.
She was an assistant producer for a couple of videos including Homemade SpaceCraft, New York’s strangest Astronaut, Homemade mission to Mars by Tom Sachs, and Blowing up Asteroids with NASA and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The First Animal to Survive in Space has well over 13 million views. She produced three videos for the 2013 series, My Life Online.
The series was developed for Motherboard with the intention of showing interesting characters earning from working on the internet. Her three videos are Shoenice22 Will Eat Anything for Fame, The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @dadboner Creator Mike Burns, and Jerome LOL on Remixing the Internet and the Ageless Beauty of Web 1.0.
The Shoenice22 video amassed views in excess of 2 million. She was lauded for her style and ability to find people on the margins of society and having them shed light on larger issues.
Erin Lee Carr Click.Print.Gun
She created the 2013 documentary, Click.Print.Gun for Vice. The video was published on the 25th of March in 2013. For her efforts on the video, she won a 2014 Webby Award. The video has registered well over 12 million YouTube views.
In a nutshell, the film reveals how 3D printing is creating new issues with gun production. In June of 2013, she left Vice for The Verge, an American tech news and media network.
She had a six-month stint as a producer with Vox Media. During her time there, she curated and produced long and short stories for The Verge. In November of 2013, she moved on from Vox and became a freelance HBO Documentary Films director.
Erin Lee Carr Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop
In 2015, her first HBO documentary, Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. In addition, the documentary made her a Finalist for the Cinema Eye Honors in 2016 in the category: non-fiction film for TV.
The documentary is about an ex-NYPD cop named Gilberto Valle who was arrested for a kidnapping conspiracy and the illegal access of a law-enforcement database. His wife had installed spyware on their computer in an effort to see why her husband was staying up so late at night.
The findings revealed that he was a subscriber to a number of fetish websites. In addition, he had been exchanging messages with some strange characters on how to kidnap, torture, kill, cook, and eat women.
Erin Lee Carr Mommy Dead and Dearest
In May of 2017, a film directed by Erin entitled Mommy Dead and Dearest debuted on HBO. The film follows the story of the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, allegedly by her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard. The documentary was an official selection for SXSW, DocAviv, and HotDocs. In 2017, it was one of the most-watched documentaries on HBO.
Erin Lee Carr Dirty Money: Drug Short
She directed an episode of the Netflix series Dirty Money entitled Drug Short. The episode reveals how big pharmaceutical companies exploit patients who are in search of life-saving drugs. As of 2018, she is finishing a project for HBO based on the Michelle Carter criminal case.
In addition, she is involved in the production of a sex abuse scandal in the USA Women’s Gymnastics. It was announced by Entertainment Weekly that she was working with a major book publisher, Ballantine, to publish a memoir about her late father.
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When I search documentary directors, google lists the top 14 with a 1 woman and 1 person of color (and this is the genre that supposedly has more women 😳)
— ELC (@erinleecarr) June 15, 2020
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