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MARÍA
AGUI CARTER
Writer/Director
María
Agui Carter, founder of Iguana Films is currently
writing for a new PBS series on Health Disparities in America and
writing/directing REBEL, an independent feature historical documentary
about a
woman soldier of the American Civil War.
A
native of Ecuador, María grew up in New York and graduated
from Harvard
University in 1987. In 1989 she joined the staff at Boston’s
public television
station, WGBH. She has produced and directed numerous documentaries for
WGBH's
long- running Latino series LA PLAZA on subjects ranging from folk
healers in
the Latino community (The Other Doctors, 1989) to the resurgence of
modern
tango dancing (Tango: Duel and Dance, 2000). María developed
and produced for
the four-hour CULTURE SHOCK series on national primetime PBS. She
scripted,
produced, and directed two series of short films for the college
educational
market on Latin American culture filmed in Spain, Mexico, Argentina,
Venezuela,
Nicaragua, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic, and other Latin
countries. In
2001 she was appointed an Associate Fellow at the David Rockefeller
Center for
Latin American Studies at Harvard, while producing and directing
segments for
Roundtable Media for a new series on access to college for
underprivileged
kids. This three-part series, called College Track, aired in the fall
of 2004
on PBS. María writes and lectures at universities and
community forums, and has
published articles on subjects ranging from women in the Civil War, to
Latinos
in film. María was a 2002-3 Warren Fellow at
Harvard’s History Dept. and a 2003
- 4 Rockefeller Fellow at Tulane University’s Stone Center
for Latin American Studies.
Maria’s work has won NEA, Mass Cultural Council, Latino
Public Broadcasting,
and Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities grants. María is
a Writer’s
Guild/East member, a member of Women in Film and Video New England, on
the
Executive Board of the Filmmaker’s Collaborative, and a
founding board member
of the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Latino Independent
Producers.
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