Erin Lee Carr

Erin Lee Carr (born April 15, 1988) is an American documentary filmmaker.

She is also an author for publications including VICE and her memoir called All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir, a story about love, addiction, and the relationship between father and daughter.

When her father got out of rehab, he regained physical custody of the girls and in 1994 married Jill Rooney, who became Erin's step-mother.

In addition to her twin sister Meagan, a mental health worker, Carr has a half-sister named Maddie.

The family lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then New Jersey.

In the Summer of 2009, Carr was an intern at Fox Searchlight Pictures, working in the public relations department.

In the Fall of 2009, Carr worked as a Media Assistant at the Instructional Media Center in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In 2010, Carr graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts.

In the Spring of 2010, Carr attended FAMU in Prague in the Czech Republic.

In November 2010, she worked as an office production assistant on Lena Dunham's TV show, Girls.

Carr worked as a college intern at VICE.

After graduation, in 2010 she got a full-time job at VICE where she worked up to an Associate Producer position for Vice Media's Motherboard, an online magazine and video channel that focused on the intersection of technology, science and people.

She was at VICE for three years.

In 2011, Carr co-produced the documentary Free The Network for Motherboard.

The film depicted the efforts of the Free Network Foundation to provide Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zuccotti Park with Internet connectivity.

The NYPD's treatment of the infrastructure and protesters was highlighted in a story called ''Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street?

Inside the NYPD's Lost and Found''.

In 2012, Carr developed Spaced Out for Motherboard.

Spaced Out had twelve videos, nine of which Carr helped create.

She helped produce UFO sightings in Colorado, Using the Sun to Make Music, The Man Who Hunts Spy Satellites, Save the Last Great Telescope, and The First Animal to Survive in Space.

Carr was an assistant producer for Building a Homemade Space Craft, Blowing up Asteroids with NASA and Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York's Strangest Astronaut, and Homemade Mission to Mars by Tom Sachs.

In 2013, Carr developed My Life Online for VICE Motherboard.

Carr produced three videos for this series: 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.

In 2013, Carr produced a documentary for VICE called ''Click.

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Gun.'' about Cody Wilson, the owner of Defense Distributed.

The film shows how 3D-printing is creating new issues with gun production.

Wilson is against gun control and is working to create a full blueprint for a completely 3D printed gun with hopes to put it online for anyone to have access.

In June 2013, she left VICE for Vox Media's The Verge.

She worked as a producer, a position she held for four months.

The documentary won a 2014 Webby Award.

In 2015, Variety included Carr as one of its "10 Documakers To Watch".

Carr made the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Her documentaries include Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop, Mommy Dead and Dearest and the HBO documentaries I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter and At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal.

Carr also directed and produced the high-profile Netflix documentary Britney vs Spears, chronicling Britney Spears's attempts to challenge her abusive 13-year conservatorship by her father Jamie Spears; the film made a number of accusations against Spears's business manager Lou Taylor.

Carr is the daughter of the late The New York Times media columnist David Carr.

Carr was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to journalist David Carr and Anna Lee.

Carr and her twin sister, Meagan Carr, were born two and a half months early.

David Carr and Anna O'Leary lost custody of the twins because of their drug addiction.

Carr and her sister went into foster care for a summer.