Erin Lee Carr

Erin Lee Carr (born April 15, 1988) is an American documentary film director most well known for her HBO documentary Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop and the Vice Media documentary Click. Print. Gun. She is the daughter of the late New York Times media columnist David Michael Carr. She currently lives in New York City.

Carr was born on April 15, 1988 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to David Carr and his girlfriend Anna. Carr and her twin sister, Megan, were born two and a half months early. David Carr and Anna lost custody of the twins because of Anna and David's drug addictions. This placed Erin Carr and her sister into foster care for a summer. When her father got out of rehab, he regained physical custody of the girls. In 1994 he married Erin's step-mother, Jill Rooney, and they all lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Carr graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. Carr attributes Madison for instilling her with a good work ethic. While at Madison she worked as a resident assistant, hosted a WSUM radio show called Riot Grrrl, and was a media assistant in the Instructional Media Lab.

In the summer of 2009, Carr interned with Fox Searchlight Pictures as a public relations intern. In this position she got to work on the press for films like 500 Days of Summer, Adam, and Whip It!.

From January 2010 to April 2010, she worked with Doc Alliance Films as a public relations intern. In this position she got to help an international documentary company find media outlets in the United States.

Carr began working at Vice through an internship in 2010 which quickly turned into a job after she graduated from UW-Madison. She worked at Vice for three years. She began as an intern in 2010 and worked her way to an Associate Producer position for Vice's Motherboard, a sub-set online magazine and video channel which focuses on the intersection of technology, science and people.

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