| Summary: | Filmmaker Shari Carpenter was born on July 14, 1961, in Washington, D.C. She earned her B.F.A. degree from New York University in 1984. Carpenter began her film career as the script supervisor on Spike Lee's Jungle Fever in 1991. She worked on other Spike Lee/40Acres & A Mule productions, including Malcolm X in 1992, and Inside Man in 2005. She wrote and directed several short films including The Assistant and Since Lisa. Her debut feature film, Kali's Vibe, received multiple awards and honors. Carpenter received grants from the Eastman Fund as well as the New York State Council for the Arts. She appeared as a panelist on the Black Filmmakers in the Director's Chair Africana.com Roundtable. She also taught seminars on directing actors, screenwriting and script supervision. She received the Oregon Writers Colony fiction award for her short story, "Ashes," in 2004. She released her second feature film, Building Girl, in 2005.
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