Sarah Jefferson Carter
Writer Director
Bio
Sarah Jefferson Carter is a Writer, Director, Storyteller, and cofounder of Rhythm & Noise Productions. She has worked in the Film Industry, where she learned and honed her many facets of filmmaking and where she has found her niche writing and directing independent films that feature black women in the Fantasy and Sci Fi genre. Sarah has written three features, including “Of Thistles & Rye,” a historical drama which was a quarter-finalist (top 300 scripts out of 7,000) in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition in 2017. Sarah has also shot an animatic trailer and released a short film, “Black Out,” for which she was the writer and director.
Sarah is currently in post-production on a short-form fantasy web series, "Queendom Come," a cross-world/epic fantasy series about a young black woman, Sariya, who is struggling to build the typical American dream life when she soon discovers that she is anything but typical. The series also explores an otherworldly reality and is set to premier at industry festivals starting spring of 2023.
Whether it's through writing, directing, or just general chaos-making, Sarah loves finding new ways to bring black fantasy stories to life. She had a knack for spinning tall tales, but her journey wouldn't stop at just that - she has a commitment to making an impact. Sarah's mission is to create a world where woman of color are the heroes and protagonists of their own genre tales. She wants to use her art to show the multidimensionality and diversity of black culture and inspire people of all races to see themselves in new, powerful ways.
Work
Of Thistles and Rye
Historical Drama (Feature)
In Oklahoma during the roaring 1920’s, the perilous love affair of a rebellious black ballerina and the handsome son of a white oil tycoon intensifies amidst stiff racial tensions and political conspiracies, culminating in the infamous massacre of the all blacktown Greenwood.
Drifters
Sci-Fi Drama (Feature)
In 2083 Riley, a cellist by day and hacker by night, is half of a unique pair of twins that have jumpstarted humanity's evolutionary process, threatening the Pharmaceutical companies profitable genetically designer humans and their latest creation the Gyst-program. But when Rylie’s twin brother goes missing she will overturn governments and destroy corporations to get him back..
Paper Dolls
Coming of Age Drama (Feature)
When the art school of her dreams rejects her and she catches her crush in bed with her nemesis, Joni(17) dives off the deep end. Barely holding on to reality; Joni and her overactive imagination enact a plan using a societal outcast, street art and social media to win them back, no matter who she hurts along the way.
GALLERY
