About me

Rachel co-owns and runs Fullrange, a digital production company based in Digbeth, Birmingham, which she has grown over the past four years with fellow directors Lee Kemp (MD), and Steff Aquarone.

Through Fullrange Films Rachel produces commercials, marketing and communications films, and arts projects for brands including Style Birmingham, Smith & Nephew, American Express, Land Rover, and the Arts Council. Rachel also directs many of Fullrange's factual projects, and works with the team on creative concept development to solve clients' wide ranging communication issues. As part of Fullrange's output, Rachel has experience of working with young people as a producer and director on awareness raising film projects, with organisations including Birmingham Youth Services, The Princes Trust, and the Children’s Society. Recent subject matter has included homophobia, prejudices faced by young parents, and challenges for young unaccompanied asylum seekers.

Rachel is passionate about alternative forms of education and opportunities for young people, which underpins her current chairmanship of Bournville College's UK Career Academy Media Lab, and her committee membership of the Young People's Enterprise Partnership consisting of young entrepreneurs across the region.

Rachel has also independently produced numerous short films including UK Film Council Digishort Momster (Dir. Steven Spencer) which was a winner at the Performance Short Film Competition at BAFTA. Momster has recently screened at Flatpack 2009, the Cinemagic International Children's Festival, and the prestigious Interfilm Berlin where it was nominated for the International Confrontations Competition for films against violence and intolerance.

In 2008 Rachel also co-produced short film Caterpillar with Michael Ford, which was a UK Film Council Digital PLUS commission written and directed by John Maidens. This film won the 'Best Fictional' award at the Royal Television Society Midlands Awards (October 2009), where Rachel also won ‘Best Production Craft Skills’ as a producer for a body of work throughout 2008 and 2009.

Past projects

Selected Credits

Latest Project: Doing Business In Birmingham, Marketing Birmingham http://vimeo.com/11993278

Commercials:

Style Birmingham 'One Mile of Style' television commercial, Fullrange, tx 1st - 31st December 2009 Channel 4 & ITV

Short Films:

Trolley (Dir. Anna Louise Shelton), Paper Bird Productions & UK Film Council/Screen WM, October 2009

Momster (Dir. Steven Spencer), independently produced by Rachel Carter & UK Film Council/Screen WM, October 2008

Caterpillar (Dir. John Maidens, co-producer Michael Ford), Infinite Wisdom Productions & UK Film Council/Screen WM, October 2008

Corporate:

Land Rover Armoured Discovery sales DVD, Fullrange, Jan 2009

Style in the City Award Opener film, Retail Birmingham, October 2009

Royal Television Society Midlands Awards Opening Film, October 2009

Screen WM 2009 Production & Locations Showreel, Screen WM May 2009

This is Birmingham, Fullrange for Un.titled, 2008

'The Big Picture' film for Audiences Central and The Arts Council, 2008

Crossroads care charity rebranding internal comms film, Fullrange for SEED Communications, 2009

Director-Producer Credits:

Current: DVD for Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers, A Fullrange Production for the Children's Society

Being a Young Parent, Princes Trust funded DVD for Sandwell & Dudley PCT

Current productions

DVD for Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers, A Fullrange Production for the Children's Society

Young People's Parliament Film, working with Loudmouth Education & Training

Central Law Training online Promo, Oct 2009 - ongoing