1. Bill Carter was born on 1966 and is a writer and director.
10 Facts About Bill Carter
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Bill Carter directed the documentary film Miss Sarajevo, which consists of amateur video material he shot during his stay in Sarajevo while the city was under siege.
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Bill Carter is the author of Fools Rush In, his memoirs of working for an aid agency during the Bosnian War.
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Bill Carter teaches journalism and film at Northern Arizona University.
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Bill Carter saw Sarajevo as key because Sarajevans refused to be divided along ethnic lines with many Serbs joining the defence of the city against the Serb nationalist besiegers.
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Bill Carter began to do some work for the Sarajevan television, and he managed to get an interview with Bono from rock group U2.
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Bono, who later admitted that he was deeply touched by Bill Carter's story, heard about the importance of pop music in Sarajevo and said that he would love to play in Sarajevo.
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In 1995, Bill Carter made the documentary film Miss Sarajevo out of the video material he recorded.
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In 1997, when U2 finally performed in Sarajevo during their PopMart Tour, Bill Carter was in the audience, meeting with the friends he had made during the siege.
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Bill Carter wrote an acclaimed memoir about these experiences titled Fools Rush In that was shortlisted for a BBC book club upon first publication and received critical praise from Bono, Jon Krakauer, Jim Harrison and Charles Bowden among others.