MARÍA AGUI CARTER
Writer / Director

María Agui Carter, a Writer, Producer and Director, is founder of Iguana Films in Boston, specializing in media about culture, politics, and history.  She is a graduate of Harvard University, a former staff producer for WGBH Boston, and a Brandeis Visiting Scholar.  Over a dozen of her documentaries have aired on public television.  Ms. Agui Carter was the only woman director featured for her dramatic work on Discovery en Espanol's Hispanic Heritage Month specials in 2008.  In 2010, PBS will broadcast her historical documentary “Rebel, " based on the memoir of a Cuban woman soldier of the American Civil War.  She is now in production on a feature documentary film on women war journalists.  Ms. Agui Carter is on the Board of NALIP (the National Association of Latino Independent Producers) and is President of the Filmmaker’s Collaborative in Boston and a member of the Writer’s Guild, East.

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