C.C. Webster is a graduate of Brandeis University with a B.A. in English and minors in Film and Creative Writing. While at Brandeis, she twice won awards for her poetry, founded and edited The Brandeis Free Press, and was published in many journals.

In 2006, she graduated from Columbia University s School of the Arts, Film Division, with an M.F.A in Directing/Screenwriting. During her time at Columbia she wrote and directed two films. Tracks (2005) depicts the story of Frizzy, a bear of a woman who inherits a crappy car from her estranged father. Full of colorful characters, non-traditional families, and a bit of environmental science Tracks stars Tony Award-Winning Actress, Becky Ann Baker. Civil War (2006), winner of the 2005 Lifetime Development Grant, has played over fifty festivals internationally, including the Seattle Film Festival where it was chosen as Short of the Day. Civil War tells the story of a group of middle school girls on a field trip to the battlefield of Gettysburg and the mutiny which happens between them. She directed a short, commissioned by the FIt Club, called Babies (2014), written by Academy Award Winner, Mara Kassin.

Her feature script, BLUE BALL, PA, a raunchy senior citizen sex comedy set in Pennsylvania Dutch country, has been optioned by director, Jen McGowan (KELLY & CAL, RUST CREEK). Her feature script, MISSING, winner of the American Scandinavian Society's Cultural Grant, was invited to participate in the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference, and has received pre-production funding from the Swedish Film Institute. Recenlty, her feature script, LITTLE BUFFALO, was accepted to the Writers Lab, sponsored by Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep.

She was the founder of the DRIVE-IN Film Festival that had a ten year run bringing independent films to Drive-in theaters across the country to support the dying art of the local drive-in. With notoriety and the advancement of digital projection, the festival aided in helping many drive-ins find footing and new audiences, and thrive.