about rebecca

Requiem for a Running Back is Rebecca Carpenter’s first feature and fourth film as director. In addition to being awarded a Golden Telly and a Golden Remy, her work across media as both producer and director has been critically acclaimed nationally and internationally in theatrical, festival, and special event screenings. Executive Producer Max Mayer notes that “Rebecca’s body of work reveals her big brain and her even bigger heart. Her need to understand the complicated nature of the individual within a community shows up in really intriguing ways. She captures moments of ordinary heroism and discord in Susan Rows and Detached; the ways in which community beliefs can be self-limiting in Free Angela and (re)birth; and the mechanics of emotions in conflict in the painting series Energy. Her delight in discovery is palpably captured throughout her work. Requiem is no exception - the work of a mature storyteller who turns the camera on herself and her relationship with her father, bravely documenting their difficulty connecting with all its messiness and ferocity.”