Shari Lynette Carpenter

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Writer/director Shari Lynette Carpenter’s most recent film, Three’s Complicated, a “dope” romantic comedy that she both wrote and directed and that stars Shanola Hampton (of SHOWTIME'S Shameless) will air in fall 2018.

Carpenter says she came out of the womb with pencil in hand, a born storyteller and her film career all began with a fan letter written to the, then up and coming and now, legendary filmmaker Spike Lee. Lee gave Carpenter her first jobs in film and she eventually worked by his side as his script supervisor. Script supervision afforded Carpenter the opportunity to work with A list directors, producers, actors and more importantly to become intimately involved with scripts.

Carpenter wrote and directed the award winning short film Since Lisa (Winner at the Black Filmmaker Hall of Fame and Black American Cinema Society Festivals), which screened at more than two dozen film festivals, as well as several other shorts. Her feature directorial debut, Kali’s Vibe, a national and international festival favorite, garnered Jury, Audience and Vision awards. She had the pleasure of directing Gillian Jacobs (Netflix's Love, Community) in her feature film debut, Building Girl. Her PSA for Proctor and Gamble’s ‘My Black is Beautiful’ campaign, which aired during BET’s Black Girls Rock awards show, was specially created to inspire and empower adolescent black girls. She directed the music video ‘We Are the Ones’ written by and featuring Emmy nominated performer Tituss Burgess (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).

In 2017 Carpenter was a script consultant on the second season of “We Are New York,” an Emmy award winning web series created by Literacy Partners, a non profit organization, that informs and encourages immigrant parents to create better futures for their families through literacy education.

An NYU graduate, Carpenter is a Rockefeller grant nominee, a Gordon Parks Award nominee, a Stowe Story Lab alumna, an ABC Writer Development Fellow, an ABC Daytime Directing Apprentice and an IFP Project Involve: NY Fellow. She was a member of DnA, an actor and directors collaborative and NYC Directors, a director’s collective, founded by filmmakers Jim McKay and Nancy Savoca and is currently a member of Film Fatales, a women filmmaker's advocacy, resource and networking organization.

She has written articles for Creative Screenwriting, Filmmaker, Cineaste and Essence magazines and is the Panel Chair for the Cinematic Arts discipline of The National YoungArts Foundation, an organization that identifies and nurtures the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts and assists them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development.

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Secondary Job Title	Screenwriter
Job Titles	Screenwriter, Writer, Director
Years in industry	6+ years