Lee Charlish

Lee Charlish is a filmmaker, animator, writer and actor from Coventry, West Midlands, UK. He studied drama at the CUPA and filmmaking at the NFTS in Berkshire. His novel, Postcards from Venus, was first released in 2009 and was made available as a second edition in 2016. His first film, Snail (2004) won the Orange Audience Award at DepicT! as part of the Encounters Film Festival. He took a break from filmmaking for several years and concentrated on writing. In 2014, his film Snow - an animated short film - won the Macoproject Online Film Festival 'Best Short Animation Award' and has been shown at festivals worldwide. This was followed by Pig Dream, a surreal animation, which won the DepicT! British Special Mention Award 2016 at the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol. His animation ninetofive (2017) won the Midlands Movies Best Animated Film in 2018 and Return from the Moon won the same prize in 2019. Scarecrow, his first live-action short film since 2004, has been shown worldwide and was nominated at several festivals for Best Short Film. It also got nominations for Best Wardrobe and Costume at the Midlands Movies Awards 2019, as well as Best Short Film, and Best Production Design and Wardrobe at the Unrestricted View Film Festival 2018 in London. In 2019, Lee's film, The Cold Caller - a horror - was awarded the Best Short Award at the Wirksworth Short Film Festival, as well as winning Best Sound Design at the Midlands Movies Awards in 2020. His comedy, Switch, was awarded Best Foreign Comedy at New York's Just for Laughs Film Festival in 2019. In 2020, Lee was awarded Best Animated Film at the Midlands Movies Awards for his short film Waxworks Owner Fumes at Closure.