Erin Lee Carr

Erin Lee Carr is a documentary filmmaker renowned for exploring criminal justice, femininity and virality. She is best known for Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop, Mommy Dead and Dearest and the HBO documentaries I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter and At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal. In 2021, Carr is set to release a documentary for Netflix about Britney Spears, chronicling her father's, and former Business Manager Lou M Taylor's, control of the star's finances and career under a 13-year conservatorship. Carr is the daughter of the late The New York Times media columnist David Carr. She is also the author of memoir called All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir, a story about love, addiction, and the often difficult relationship between father and daughter.

In the Summer of 2009, Carr was an intern at Fox Searchlight Pictures, working in the public relations department. In the Fall of 2009, Carr worked as a Media Assistant at the Instructional Media Center in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In November 2010, she worked as an office production assistant on Lena Dunham's TV show, Girls.After graduation, in 2010 she got a full-time job at VICE where she worked up to an Associate Producer position for Vice Media's Motherboard, an online magazine and video channel that focused on the intersection of technology, science and people. She was at VICE for three years. In 2011, Carr shot video and documented the wi-fi towers that Occupy Wall Street protestors had set up in Zuccotti Park in New York City, and how the NYPD dealt with the towers and protestors in a story called Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD's Lost and Found. In 2012, Carr developed Spaced Out for Motherboard. In 2013, Carr developed My Life Online for VICE's Motherboard. Carr also produced a documentary for VICE called Click. Print. Gun. about Cody Wilson, the owner of Defense Distributed. Carr produced a documentary for VICE called Click. Print. Gun. about Cody Wilson, the owner of Defense Distributed. In June 2013, she left VICE for Vox Media's The Verge. While at Vox, Carr curated and produced long and short stories for The Verge.

In April 2015, Carr's first documentary for HBO, Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. In May 2017, HBO released Carr's documentary film Mommy Dead and Dearest, which was about the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, allegedly by her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard. It was an official selection for SXSW, HotDocs and DocAviv and was one of the most-watched documentaries on HBO in 2017.

In 2019, Carr's film At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, and then aired on HBO. Carr directed the limited series, How to Fix a Drug Scandal, that was released on Netflix on April 1, 2020.In February 2021, Bloomberg announced that she was working on an upcoming Britney Spears documentary for Netflix, chronicling her father's, and former Business Manager Lou M Taylor's, control of the star's finances and career under a 13-year conservatorship.