Annette Haywood-Carter
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Annette's directing career began with "The Foot Shooting Party," starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Financed with a grant from Jeffrey Katzenberg's Discretionary Fund at Touchstone Pictures, the film screened to standing-room only at Sony Studios, and Premiere magazine featured Annette in an article, "Talent to Keep an Eye On."
Prior to directing Annette worked as a script supervisor on major studio films for Academy Award winning producers and directors. Steven Spielberg saw "The Foot Shooting Party" and offered Annette an NBC "SeaQuest" episode to direct. Actor Roy Scheider asked her to return for another episode. Word spread and Annette was offered her first feature film, "Foxfire," where she pulled Angelina Jolie from auditions for a minor role and offered her the lead. "Foxfire" has since found a cult following and is considered by many to be the film that launched Jolie's career.
Annette wrote and directed her next feature, "Love is Strange," for Rysher Entertainment. Rysher shuttered its feature film division before the film was made and sold the script to Lifetime with Annette attached to direct. Annette cast Academy and Tony Award winning actors Ron Silver, Kate Nelligan and Julie Harris in the film and garnered a rave review for her directing in the Hollywood Reporter.
Annette's next feature, "Savannah," starred the late Sam Shepard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jim Caviezel and Bradley Whitford. Following a theatrical run on 23 screens, "Savannah" began a 12-year run on cable TV and major streamers. After "Savannah," Annette was invited by producer-director Lesli Linka Glatter to shadow director Alex Graves in Berlin on Showtime's "Homeland."
In 2021 Annette was chosen by the DGA Womens Steering Committee's new program, the SQUAD, which was launched to help mid-career women directors take their careers to the next level. Six months later she was hired by MarVista Entertainment to direct the rom-com, "Daughter of the Bride," where she once again secured an exceptional cast, including Academy and Tony Award winner, Marcia Gay Harden and Aiden Quinn.
Fox is distributing "Daughter of the Bride", with a theatrical release in 5 cities + on-demand, Feb 3, 2023.
Annette is a prolific writer. In addition to produced screenplays, she has worked as a writer-for-hire, including a mini-series for CBS, and as a script-doctor, on numerous screenplays greenlit for production. She recently completed screenplays for a limited series set in Berlin and an independent feature, a transgender family story, in development with an Academy Award winning producer advising.
Annette is a member of the Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Women in Film, Film Fatales, Women in Media, DGA Womens Steering Committee and DGA LGBTQ+ Committee.
She is represented by Jackie Eckhouse of Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes in New York City.
Annette's work can be viewed at www.haywoodcarter.com
Prior to directing Annette worked as a script supervisor on major studio films for Academy Award winning producers and directors. Steven Spielberg saw "The Foot Shooting Party" and offered Annette an NBC "SeaQuest" episode to direct. Actor Roy Scheider asked her to return for another episode. Word spread and Annette was offered her first feature film, "Foxfire," where she pulled Angelina Jolie from auditions for a minor role and offered her the lead. "Foxfire" has since found a cult following and is considered by many to be the film that launched Jolie's career.
Annette wrote and directed her next feature, "Love is Strange," for Rysher Entertainment. Rysher shuttered its feature film division before the film was made and sold the script to Lifetime with Annette attached to direct. Annette cast Academy and Tony Award winning actors Ron Silver, Kate Nelligan and Julie Harris in the film and garnered a rave review for her directing in the Hollywood Reporter.
Annette's next feature, "Savannah," starred the late Sam Shepard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jim Caviezel and Bradley Whitford. Following a theatrical run on 23 screens, "Savannah" began a 12-year run on cable TV and major streamers. After "Savannah," Annette was invited by producer-director Lesli Linka Glatter to shadow director Alex Graves in Berlin on Showtime's "Homeland."
In 2021 Annette was chosen by the DGA Womens Steering Committee's new program, the SQUAD, which was launched to help mid-career women directors take their careers to the next level. Six months later she was hired by MarVista Entertainment to direct the rom-com, "Daughter of the Bride," where she once again secured an exceptional cast, including Academy and Tony Award winner, Marcia Gay Harden and Aiden Quinn.
Fox is distributing "Daughter of the Bride", with a theatrical release in 5 cities + on-demand, Feb 3, 2023.
Annette is a prolific writer. In addition to produced screenplays, she has worked as a writer-for-hire, including a mini-series for CBS, and as a script-doctor, on numerous screenplays greenlit for production. She recently completed screenplays for a limited series set in Berlin and an independent feature, a transgender family story, in development with an Academy Award winning producer advising.
Annette is a member of the Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Women in Film, Film Fatales, Women in Media, DGA Womens Steering Committee and DGA LGBTQ+ Committee.
She is represented by Jackie Eckhouse of Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes in New York City.
Annette's work can be viewed at www.haywoodcarter.com
