Charlotte Wincott

Charlotte Wincott is a filmmaker originally from Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University in neuroscience where she studied the role of glutamate receptor-associated proteins in memory and conducted addiction research as part of her postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University. She began making films after her postdoc with the aim of telling stories with scientific themes that are both entertaining and educational. Her award-winning short films (Ping Pong Pigeons, Platitudes, and Dystopian Snow Globe) have been screened internationally and touch on topics related to mental health and psychology. Charlotte's first feature film as a writer/director, The Issue with Elvis, is about a retired professor and runaway boy who meet in the mountains of West Virginia and become unlikely friends. The film premiered in June of 2021 at the Big Bear Film Summit in California and has gone on to win over a dozen awards, including two Best Feature Film awards at the Toronto Beaches Film Festival and the Hollywood Women's International Film Festival, Best Original Film at the Poe Film Festival, and Best Dramatic Feature at the Cinematic Arts Redemptive Entertainment Awards. Charlotte also won Best Director at the Montgomery International Film Festival and Best Feature Screenplay at the Shawna Shea Film Festival. The film will be distributed worldwide by Random Media and 1091 Pictures, with a release date of March 15th, 2022. Charlotte was honored with the Activism Award in October 2021 by the Hollywood Women's Film Institute for her work in the addiction space at the Los Angeles premiere of her documentary feature Fall Fight Shine on substance use disorders.