“Fall Fight Shine” features the recovery story of Canadian martial arts film actor Jeff Wincott. Director and neuroscientist Charlotte Wincott collaborated with numerous addiction experts for “Fall Fight Shine,” which is her first documentary film. Scientists and experts explain the biology underlying addiction as well as the challenges and pathways to recovery. The film premiered at The Art of Recovery Film Festival in the greater Miami area in September of 2021 and won Best Documentary at the Hollywood Women’s International Film Festival. It has been an official selection and finalist in a number of other film festivals including the Raw Science Film Festival, and has been featured in academic outreach events to educate the public on substance use disorders. Available across various digital platforms August 1st, 2022.
In her debut feature film, writer-director, and producer Charlotte Wincott’s ‘The Issue with Elvis’ follows the story of Dr. Michael Mercer (Jeff Wincott), a retired botanist who lives in a cabin in the mountains outside of Morgantown, West Virginia. An expert in fungi, he collects different types of mushrooms from which he isolates various compounds. During one of his treks in the West Virginia mountains, he happens upon a runaway boy who is living in a broken-down school bus on the grounds of an abandoned amusement park. The boy follows Dr. Mercer home one evening after one of his fungi-hunting outings, and the scientist decides to take the child in. The boy tells Dr. Mercer that his name is Elvis, and the duo begin to get to know each other. The botanist begins to piece together the mystery of Elvis through his own research, uncovering the child’s complicated history. Dr. Mercer is torn between wanting to help Elvis by providing a temporary, safe place to live, and feeling the moral obligation to return the boy to his rightful home. Along the way, the two become unlikely friends, and give each other comfort in otherwise lonely microcosms.
‘The Issue with Elvis’ premiered at the Big Bear Film Summit in June 2021 and has gone on to win over a dozen festival awards including Best Original Film at the Poe Film Festival in Richmond, Virginia and Best Feature Film at the Toronto Beaches Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Jeff and Charlotte’s son, Wolfgang, has also won a number of awards for his performance, including Best Young Actor and the Rising Star Award.
