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Rachel Emma Carter SFHEA, FRSA is a Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking at 91ÊÓƵ, leading the MA International Film Production and the new BA Filmmaking, and serving as DMU’s BAFTA Albert lead, and Academic Lead for the Raindance Film partnership. She is a double Royal Television Society award‑winning producer and former director of a Televisual Top 50 company, maintaining active professional practice as a producer and script consultant; credits include RUDY with BAFTA‑nominated director Shona Auerbach (winning Best Feature across four international film festivals in 2021, and distributed theatrically across 87 UK screenings). Her external roles include External Examiner (London Film School; Confetti; Salford) and she serves on the Board of Trustees with Flatpack (Arts Council NPO and the Midlands' only BAFTA and OSCAR qualifying film festival) and Rural Media (producing BBC4's The Read).

Rachel’s scholarly interests span supporting emerging and independent UK filmmakers, industry‑aligned pedagogy, and evolving production workflows, with outputs across festivals, conferences and editorial work. She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE and a Fellow of the RSA.

PhD supervision enquiries are welcome in (but not limited to): practice‑research in filmmaking; UK and European film industry; script development practices; film financing and marketing/distribution models; casting processes and working with actors; sustainable filmmaking practice; film and TV production design.

Guest Editor for special edition of Film Education Journal dedicated to Educating Indie Filmmakers, UCL Press, Creative Scotland and BFI (Spring 2024)

Conference paper on Marketing of Female Filmmakers in relation to #MeToo and #TimesUp, ‘Jennifer’s Body Re-Framed: Demonic Succubus as Feminist Cult Icon’, for Bodies as Battlegrounds: Disruptive Sexualities in Cult Cinema, The 15^th Cine-Excess International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions, Birmingham City University, October 2021, Rachel E. Carter and Georgia Mae Blood. 

Practice Output: Rudy (Live-action feature film, 2021),Dir. BAFTA nominated Shona Auerbach, Producer Rachel Carter. Winner of Best Feature Film Award at several international festivals; Birmingham Film Festival 2021, City of Angels Women's Film Festival, New Renaissance Film Festival, and Pillusion Film Festival. Also winning Best Director at Midlands Movie Awards and Sicilian Film Awards.

Conference Paper: ‘Citizen Science’: The Role of Factual Entertainment TV in Climate Change, Ecology, and Sustainability Awareness and Action. Sustainable Development Goals Film Festival and Conference hosted by the Media Discourse Centre, 91ÊÓƵ, December 2020.

My research spans filmmaking pedagogy, emerging production workflows, and the support and development of independent and early‑career filmmakers. I investigate industry‑aligned teaching models, particularly experiential and iterative learning, and contribute to national discourse through editorial work with the Film Education Journal. As a practice‑researcher, I explore creative development processes and collaborations, European co-production models, and the conditions shaping the UK and international screen industries, informed by ongoing professional practice including my award‑winning feature film RUDY and my professional consultancy as a script reader/assessor and industry mentor with Creative England / BFI. My work focuses on strengthening sustainable pathways into the industry and enhancing inclusive, practice-based film education.

My industry-informed knowledge of my subject area is applied through my roles as Programme Leader for the MA International Film Production, and the new BA Filmmaking, and my Senior Lectureship and module leadership of UG and PG students (including L6 and L7 final project supervision). I lead and contribute to modules across several programmes including the two aforementioned filmmaking programmes and BA Film Studies, BSc Media Production.
My teaching and learning practice is grounded in industry-led, student centred, practice based education, integrating real world collaboration, iterative creative processes, and authentic assessment design.

I teach across producing, script and story development, creative talent management, development of director’s vision, casting and working with actors, pitching and raising finance, production management, scheduling/budgeting, creative enterprise, and critical/industrial film studies around genre, audiences, and filmmakers, drawing on extensive professional expertise. I emphasise process, experimentation, and reflective practice, ensuring parity between practical and academic learning. My inclusive approach is shaped by deep awareness of learner diversity, fostering accessible learning environments through varied delivery techniques, inclusive practice, and personalised support. This pedagogic ethos consistently drives strong student engagement, progression, and attainment.

PGCLTHE (91ÊÓƵ), MA Film & Television Studies (Warwick), BA Hons (First Class) Film & Literature (Southampton).

MA International Film Production (Programme Leader).

BA Filmmaking

Module leading and teaching on BSc. Media Production (level 6 Short Film Production), and BA Film Studies (Level 6 Final Practical Projects). 

91ÊÓƵAcademic Lead for partnership course delivered by Raindance Film LLP.

Best Feature Film, Birmingham Film Festival 2021

Best Feature Film, City of Angels Women's Film Festival

Best Feature Film, New Renaissance Film Festival

Best Feature Film, Pillusion Film Festival

Coventry University Teaching Excellence Award for ‘Living in a Digital World’ International Initiative (2015)
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2011)
Royal Television Society Award for Production Craft as a Producer (2009)
Royal Television Society Award for Best Short Film (2009)

External Examinerships:

• External Examiner for BA Hons and MA in Content Creation, Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies (2022-continuous)
• External Examiner for MA Filmmaking at London Film School / Warwick University (2021-continuous after Maternity Leave pause)
• External Examiner for Creative Arts and Industries MA Suite, Canterbury Christ Church University (2022-2025) - MA suite includes: MA Creative & Cultural Industries; MA Visual Communication; MA Film & Media Production; MA Games Design; MA Media, Communications & Public Relations.
• External Examiner for the BA Film Production at Salford University MediaCity (2019-2022)

Board and Trustee Roles:

Academic Advisory Board Member: Screen & Film School, BIMM 

Trustee, Flatpack (film festival and arts charity), British Film Institute and Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (2022-cont.)

 Trustee, Rural Media Company (2024-cont.), Production house and media education charity. 

 External Panel Memberships for Validations and Revalidations

 External Academic Panel Member for the validation of MA/MFA Screen and Film Production, Robert Gordon University / Screen Scotland (May 2026).

 External Academic Panel Member for the revalidation of BA (Hons) Film, BA (Hons) Media Production, and BA (Hons) Film and Television Production, Bournemouth University (April 2023).

External Academic Panel Member for the revalidation of FD Film and Screen Media, University Centre Leeds (March 2023).

External Academic Panel Member for the validation of the new MDes Social Innovation and BA (Hons) Digital Content Creation courses, Ravensbourne University, June 2022.

External Academic Panel Member for the validation of the new BA Creative Film, Television & Digital Media Production (Top-up) at Northampton University – February 2022.

External Academic Panel Member for the validation of new BIMM MA Screen & Film Production at The Screen & Film School (BIMM: Manchester) – June 2021.

External Academic Panel Member for the re-validation of the MA Screenwriting at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) – February 2021.

Member of BAFTTS

Editorial Board Film Education Journal (UCL Press)

 Fellow of Royal Society of Arts

Script Assessor for iFeatures / Creative England.