Bill Carter is an author, filmmaker, and a professor of practice for film production at Northern Arizona University. He is the screenwriter and an executive producer of the documentary “Kiss the Future,” which is produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and Sarah Anthony. The documentary is based on Carter’s book Fools Rush In. He is the award-winning documentary filmmaker of Miss Sarajevo, which is produced by Bono and Bill Carter, which has won numerous awards and accolades. He has made 8 short documentary films for MIT global programs including a short film on how Botswana is using diamonds to create a blueprint on how Sub-Saharan Africa economies can be more self-sustaining. He is the author of three books, including Fools Rush In, Red Summer, and Boom, Bust, Boom, all critically acclaimed journalistic memoirs. 

 

In 2009 he was recognized with honorary citizenship to the City of Sarajevo.