Charlotte Wells

Birth : 1987-06-13, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

History

Charlotte Wells (born June 13, 1987) is a New York-based Scottish director, writer, and producer. She wrote and directed three short films as a student in the MBA/MFA dual-degree program at NYU where she was supported by BAFTA New York and Los Angeles. Charlotte has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's “25 Faces of Independent Film” and was a Fellow at the 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Aftersun (2022) is her first feature, for which she received a number of accolades, including Gotham and British Independent Film Awards.

Profile

Movies

Behind the Scenes with Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal

Self

Behind the scenes camcorder footage from London Film Festival 2022 with Frankie Corio and Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal, who plays a daughter and father on holiday in Charlotte Well's Aftersun

Aftersun

Screenplay

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Aftersun

Director

Raf

Producer

In the twilight of her 20s, Raf works two jobs and spends her free time playing boardgames with her boyfriend’s roommates. Privately, she fantasizes of a life of performance and dance clubs. Over the course of several charged encounters, she becomes friends with a charismatic and wealthy woman named Tal. Raf becomes infatuated with Tal’s take-no-prisoners lifestyle. With Tal as her guide, Raf begins to see a new vision of herself, until a weekend at Tal’s country home reveals the true power balance between them.

Été

Producer

During a hot summer in rural England, a sheep shearer in his late adolescence struggles with a growing attraction to his colleague.

Blue Christmas

Writer

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

Blue Christmas

Director

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

Laps

Screenplay

On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.

Laps

Director

On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.

Briefcase

Producer

After giving birth to a briefcase, a woman kidnaps her neighbor's baby.

Alice

Producer

A young woman goes about her day despite the impending departure of her lover. A portrait of someone determined to carry on and an exploration of the pain of being left.

Tuesday

Editor

Sixteen-year-old Allie begins to accept the magnitude of a recent loss.

Tuesday

Producer

Sixteen-year-old Allie begins to accept the magnitude of a recent loss.

Tuesday

Writer

Sixteen-year-old Allie begins to accept the magnitude of a recent loss.

Tuesday

Director

Sixteen-year-old Allie begins to accept the magnitude of a recent loss.

In a Room Below

Producer

Recently arrived in New York, an immigrant becomes increasingly interested in the life of the couple living above him. However, events force him to decide whether to turn his interest into involvement.