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 14 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 was distributed worldwide by Random Media and 1091 Pictures, with a release date in the spring of 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.

Charlotte has since completed a second feature film, A Philistine in Queens, that premiered at the Golden State Film Festival (Chinese Mann Theatres) in Los Angeles. The film won Best Original Screenplay at the festival.

Dr. Wincott was raised in a rural town outside of Richmond by an English professor and Fitzgerald scholar.  She grew up surrounded by cornfields and as a girl, she dreamed of one day moving to a big city.  Charlotte has spent most of her adult life between Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., where she currently resides with her husband Jeff and son Wolfgang.  Dr. Wincott works as a medical affairs leader and spends her free time painting, cycling, and making films that she feels are meaningful.