Jeremy
Carr
Writer/ Director/ Producer
Jeremy Carr is an award winning screenwriter and film director. He has written several feature length screenplays and directed over a dozen short films.
His short film Ice Cream Ants was the Grand Prize Winner of the Dewar's "Dewey"Award (for screenwriting) presented at the 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival. As part of the prize, he was commissioned to direct a short film for Bacardi, Inc.
Ice Cream Ants was also awarded “Best Short Film” honors at the 2007 Evil City Film Festival in New York City.
His first feature, a psychological drama tentatively called Lucid was an official selection of the New York IFP Film Market and is currently in production in New York City.
Jeremy recently produced the feature film documentary “The War On Kids,” which takes a critical look at the American educational system, and was invited by the First Sundays Film Festival in New York City to guest direct the short film “Nuclear Winter.” He is also the Director of Photography on “The Sci-Fi Department,” a weekly on-line series for AMC (American Movie Classics).
Jeremy has earned top screenwriting awards from Scriptapalooza, The Slamdance Film Festival and Fade In Magazine. His dramatic feature length script "Trolling" is currently a Quarter-Finalist in the 2008 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition.
Two of Jeremy's short stories, Emma SRED, The Sleepy Head and Another Bad Night in Bensonhurst have been published in anthologies by Double Dragon Press and he was co-writer of the play St. Rosita & The Francophone which premiered at the 1998 New York International Fringe Festival.
Jeremy has also worked as a professional script analyst for such companies as Miramax Films, Revolution Studios, and Full Moon Entertainment. As Senior Producer of Distant Corners Entertainment, Jeremy wrote and produced the on-line animated series Wish You Were Here.
Jeremy
is a 1995 graduate of the film program at Boston
University. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.