Carol Farneti Foster has been making wildlife/people documentary films for the past 20 years along with her husband Richard Foster. Born in the USA in a small town in Pennsylvania, Carol makes her home Belize, Central America where there is still tropical rain forest remaining.
Carol received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with additional studies in the Galapagos Islands. She received a Medical Technology Degree at Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pennsylvania and won awards for her performance in microbiology.
She worked in many hospital and research facilities along with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, Central America. In the forests of Panama she ventured into the lives of many animal species performing ecological studies with prominent scientists from all over the world. Carol also did studies on tropical diseases, such as Chagas Disease and Malaria, while in Panama and at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Urbana.
Working with animals in the wild ,observing them and recording their behavior has always been her main interest and in 1984 she started her career in wildlife documentaries applying her background in biology and science research to natural history filming. She began her career with Partridge Films in England (now a part of ITV).
Carol and her husband are Independent Film Makers and produced films for a variety of different organizations, broadcasters, conservation groups and have done short story pieces to educate people about the environment and our planet. They have also won many awards for a variety of wildlife and conservation films all over the world. A series for BBC on the Okavango Delta, Rats and People in India for National Geographic and a Geographic Special on Anacondas in Venezuela were all award winners. They won an Emmy Craft Award for a film they did in Belize about caves called, "Journey Through the Underworld." They have also made many films about Belizean wildlife with an overall grand total of thirty- five documentaries. They shoot in 16mm or in digital video.
Along with making films Carol has been shooting still photographs over the years while working out in the field and had accumulated wildlife images. Most of the images represent animals of Central America.
She had co-authored a book about Frogs in Belize, where many of her frog images can be seen. Carols images can be found in a wide variety of wildlife magazines and books an example of this is" Jewel of the Kalahari, Okavango"; an intriguing book about the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa.
Carol continues to make documentaries and shoots still photographs whenever the opportunity arises.