Areas of Expertise
Scriptwriting; Directing and Producing; Women in the Civil War; Latino Studies
Email: maguicar@brandeis.edu
Current Project
For over a hundred years, Loreta Velazquez, a Cuban woman Civil War soldier from New Orleans has been considered a hoax. But new evidence suggests otherwise. REBEL, a new historical documentary, is a detective story about a woman, a myth, and the politics of national history.
Biography
María Agui Carter has produced numerous documentaries for WGBH’s long-running syndicated Latino series LA PLAZA and has also worked on a number of nationally aired PBS series, including CULTURE SHOCK, which she helped develop and for which she produced The Devil’s Music, about the race and class issues inherent in early censorship of Jazz and current censorship of hip hop. In addition, she developed a series on access to college for underprivileged kids, and an upcoming series on Health Disparities for PBS. 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 a PBS series on access to college for underprivileged kids. Carter was a 2002-2003 Warren Fellow at Harvard’s History Department and a 2003-2004 Rockefeller Fellow at Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Maria was a consulting producer on the new PBS series Unnatural Causes, airing in the Spring of 2008, and a scriptwriter for Chevolution, a new feature documentary on Che Guevara produced by Red Envelope Entertainment, premiering at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and available through Netflix. Her documentary film REBEL, is slated for a 2009 PBS broadcast. She is President of the Boston based Filmmaker’s Collaborative, a board member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and a member of the Writer’s Guild/East.
Education
A.B., Harvard University
Representative Publications
Carter, Maria Agui. Chevolution. Red Envelope Entertainment. Writer. Netflix 2008.
Carter, Maria Agui. Unnatural Causes series. Vital Pictures. Consulting producer. PBS 2008.
Links
Curriculum Vitae
Iguana Films
Filmmaker's Collaborative
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