Marie-Helene Carleton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Most recently, she has directed five documentaries for Al Jazeera English, one of which won Best News Documentary at the Monte Carlo Festival of Television and Film in 2014. Her film work has appeared on Al Jazeera English, Vanity Fair, BBC America, the New York Times, the Financial Times, HDNet’s World Report and Granta Magazine, among others.

She is a member of Film Fatales and has been awarded artist fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation. She was selected to participate in the inaugural Film Independent Documentary Lab in LA and the IFP Documentary Film Lab.

She co-founded www.screeningroom.org, an online platform for collaborative film feedback, in 2015.