Maria Agui Carter

Maria Agui Carter is an award-winning filmmaker and professor at Emerson College.  A former staff producer for WGBH Boston’s national productions, her films and series have been screened worldwide. Her hybrid feature documentary REBEL, now available on Amazon Prime, won an Erik Barnouw Award for best historical films in America, and she served as a director on the SCIGIRLS series, which received an Emmy nomination. Most recently, she directed ROOTED IN JUSTICE for a series on women of color restoring the global ecosystem, and she was a writer for COLLECTIVE WISDOM; Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice, published in 2023 by Penguin/Random House.  She is currently writing and directing the BIRTHRIGHT documentary, a road film about belonging in America supported by Concordia Studio and NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities). Her feature script SECRET LIFE OF LA MARIPOSA, based on her experience growing up undocumented, was supported by a Sundance lab and is in development with Barbara DeFina Productions.