Carpenter has produced, directed and edited award winning experimental and documentary films. Her films have screened in numerous international and national film festivals, art galleries and on broadcast television. Her 2016 film Klocked: Women with Horsepower was recently won a Heartland Emmy Award for excellence in Journalist Enterprise and was nominated for two other Heartland Emmy Awards in the category of editing and motion graphics. Klocked: Women with Horsepower has also won three national and one international awards including an Award of Excellence Feature Documentary from the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards and it was featured for Women’s History Month on KCET, Los Angeles and KQED San Francisco, California.