Director Biography - Carrie Bernans, 35 Miles

ctress and Filmmaker, CARRIE BERNANS - Maximizing the ABCs of Life at Full Flame, Carrie Bernans is “D” EFG – Defining Emmy-Excellence as a Futuristic-Global force, a captivating role model, and philanthropist!
Carrie recently wrapped Marvel's phenomenal Black Panther and Avengers End Game as a Dora Milijae warrior fighting for #Wakanda along the side of Black Panther and she also has appeared in Marvel’s Avengers Infinity War, X-Men, The Dark Phoenix, SWAT on FOX, CBS Seal Team, and has a new series coming out on FOX that she stars in. She also has recently wrapped up her 1st documentary, and currently working on producing two other big films this year. Carrie, like the Black Panther, “…has a good heart, and [ ] gives us a real hero[ine] —strong and honorable and, when possible, even filled with grace.”

Carrie Bernans was born in Richmond, VA with the magical enthusiasm and talents she is known for and where change became an early yet conquerable constant for her as a little girl. Carrie grew up poor-of-goods and wealthy-of-mind with a single-parent teenage-mother and an early nomadic lifestyle from her birthplace to Panama, Central America, back to Richmond and to the townships along the Eastern U.S. coast. These childhood experience reflexively prepared Carrie for extensive independent traveling and coaching abroad in Shanghai, China, Paris, France, London, England, and Berlin, Germany. Carrie looks forward to her next travels abroad discovering more of her West African blood and culture which she holds and values high to her.

“The True Measure of Leadership Is Influence – Nothing More, Nothing Less.”

Carrie is a multi-level, frequently solicited public speaker, though provoking panelist, and filmmaker in front and behind the camera. She is further differentiated by her language fluency. Therefore, be careful where you are and what language you are speaking, because Carrie masters the speaking, writing, and understanding of principal languages for global exchanges and story-telling, to wit: Spanish, Latvian, Mandarin Chinese, French, English, and Russian speaking since her late teens and early adult years from immersion in these countries and the friendships/relationships she’s built internationally. Carrie has also been featured in and alongside campaigns with Ford, Nike, Ford, Puma, Nautical, The FabLife, LAFW, MeUndies, and more. Many popular shows on networks like CBS, FOX, BET, VH1, MTV, ABC, Netflix and others have been graced with her work too.

Having thought of herself as the black girl, James Bond, and after years of studying Theater, Economics, and International dealings in college, Carrie performed in plays, dance recitals, Fortune 500 internships, and competed in track and field. (Carrie networked and trained even as a high school student with real investment bankers and accountants her mentors to do Merger & Acquisition simulations on the Vanderbilt, Emory, and Columbia University campuses.) She went on to run track at her Alma Mater, the University of Memphis, in Tennessee, home away from home for her. (Carrie is the featured alumnae in the May 2018 University of Memphis Magazine.) Carrie also attended school abroad in China, France, Germany, and the U.K. Along with Carrie’s multi-versed career, she focuses on solving youth homelessness, reading and financial literacy, and communication/self-esteem building among youth. More of Carrie’s published works include her as a model in magazines and featured articles in over 40+ publications, including FastCompany, and Marvel Universe. Her motto is One Day or Day One. You Choose.