It can take a person years to find their calling in life, so movie produceris forever thankful that she discovered her passion for filmmaking while living in Littleton and attending Columbine High School.
"Before high school, I really had no indication of what I wanted to do," Carter says."But then I had a history project where we had to make a video reenactment of a historical event, and I ended up taking the task way too seriously. I worked with the community college to help me put in titles and music, and we brought somebody on board who knew how to edit.
She started looking for film schools after her successful school project and ultimately enrolled at Florida State University. When Carter enrolled in the film program, she had considered trying her hand at writing or directing, but as soon as her classes started producing short films, she was immediately drawn to the position of producer.
"Basically, a producer has their hands in every single department and creative problem-solving aspect," Carter says."I have a very organized brain, which helps a lot with that, so I kind of just started producing a lot of short films in film school and then moved to Los Angeles to learn the business. It was being in L.A. for three or four years that sealed the deal for me that I wanted to be an independent film producer and not work within a studio system.