Cameron Carr is born and bred Harlemite, Filmmaker and Creative Producer based out of NYC. As a pragmatic optimist, and ambition to become the Issa Rae/Jordan Peele/Donald Glover ultimate hybrid: in hand with producing commercials at his Creative agency Wieden+Kennedy NY by day- Cameron’s constant mission is to continue to push, propel and create Black-led stories through film and creative, while spotlighting systemic inequities that often remain unconscious and unspoken in society. Cameron’s short film The Inventor (2022) (@inventorfilm), he Assistant Directed and Produced with a team of all Black producers, won Best Historic Short at the 2022 Manhattan Film Festival and has made a festival run at 12 festivals thus far, including CIFF as 2022 Programmer’s pick selection, Oscar Micheaux Film Festival, Cordillera Festival, Georgia Shorts Festival, and nominated as WarnerMedia HBOMax Best of the Best Short within the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. Cameron is coming off of Assistant Directing and Producing his first Feature length film and Sundance Grant recipient, Wild Darlings Sing the Blues (2024), Producing the Young Arts & Columbia Graduate University Dean’s Grant recipient, Palm Sunday (2023), and Executive Producing and Assistant Directing Speak Up Brotha! (2023), starring Bronze Lens Best Actor Roderick Lawrence and TC Carson in collaboration with Black Man Films making its global premiere at the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival. As of late, Cameron made his directorial debut for film HARLEM FRAGMENTS (2023) in March, after being selected as the Ida B. Wells Disrupting the Narrative Grant recipient. In the last six months, Cameron has been tapped for assistant directing and producing four features and six short films.