Dr. Charlotte Wincott is a medical scientist and 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 went on to win over a dozen awards, including numerous Best Feature Film awards. The Issue with Elvis was released in March of 2022 to largely critical success, with one critic remarking that the film “encourages viewers to have empathy for those with mental illness.”

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.  The film won Best Documentary at the film festival. Fall Fight Shine has also been an official selection at the Raw Science Film Festival (2022) and the Art of Recovery Film Festival (2021), as well as featured in outreach events on addiction at Rockefeller University and NYU.