Charlotte Regan

Charlotte Regan (born 19 June 1994) is a British film director. She has directed many music videos, and her short films have been shown at major international film festivals. In 2023, her debut feature film Scrapper won the Grand Jury Prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Regan's films are often characterised, as The Guardian describes, focusing "on working-class communities and characters." She has spoken in interviews of the barriers faced by working-class people in the film industry, and others' privilege.

Biography Regan was born in Hackney

As a teenager, she also worked as a paparazzi photographer; photographing film sets such as Skyfall inspired her to become a filmmaker herself. and for Stereophonics ("Fly Like an Eagle").

Regan graduated from Ravensbourne University London in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Digital Film Production. Her first short film Standby (2016) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Set entirely in a police car, it went on to win a Sundance Ignite award and be nominated for a BAFTA.

In 2017, Regan was talent-spotted by Michael Fassbender’s production company, Finn McCool Films.