Charlotte Ginsborg is a London based film director. Coming from a background in fine art and photography her hybrid films combine documentary, fiction and performance to create multi-layered films that celebrate and scrutinise the complexity of community in contemporary cities.

Working with dance, spoken word and song her films foreground what it means to individuals to adopt creative practices as actions of resilience, survival, and self-expression. The urban spaces depicted in her films becoming a stage set through which the viewer is encouraged to unpick the fabric of the city politically, socially and aesthetically.

Her latest public art commission, Our Future Our Past, Whisper it to me, consists of 6 chapters, presenting reactions of local residents in North Kent to the largest housing development in the UK. Through spoken word and intergenerational discussion the participants speak out from their post-industrial landscapes to create poignant and touching the films that address what home can and should mean. The films were exhibited at Ebbsfleet International Station, and premiered at London Short Film Festival.

Her film, Songs for The River, nominated for Best First Feature at Sheffield DocFest 2021, charts the life of an inner London housing co-operative during the first year of the pandemic, combining song and observational footage of the residents the personal and political interweave to create an intimate and moving portrait of a unique community during an extraordinary time.

She is currently working on,The Taste & Ache of Action, a feature doc that combines boxing & dancing, and ‘The More I Speak It, the More I Feel It.’ a collaborative observational documentary following poet Kimberly Campanello as she reversions Dante’s Divine Comedy, filmed between York, Puglia and Indiana, the film addresses exile, chronic illness, the role of poetry, and empowerment through the act of writing.

Reviews for Songs For The River:
'A fascinating glimpse into a very recent period of time, this is both intense and provocative' - Business Doc Europe
'One of the most impressive attempts to document the shock of the pandemic for all of us'- Charlie Phillips - Head of Guardian Docs
'A searing image of honesty and resilience'- Loud & Clear
'An impressive piece of documentary filmmaking and a picture of hope and resilience' - Backseat Mafia

Reviews for Melior Street:
“Affecting and invigorating, formally inventive and psychologically acute, 'Melior Street', in seeking to honour the normally unknowable worlds that dwell behind every face and gaze, celebrates both the overlooked and the under-seen, This is life from the road surface up,” – Gareth Evans, Curator of Film at Whitechapel Gallery, London

Her films have been

Commissioned by:
Arts Council England, Channel 4, Film London (FLAMIN), Jerwood Foundation, UNHCR, Women Without Borders, Cement Fields, Kinetika, Tide & Time Bell

Screened at:
London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival (Tiger Shorts), Sheffield Documentary Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Swedenborg Film Festival, Braziers International Film Festival, Dance Camera West LA, Venice Biennale, Welcome Trust, ICA, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Serpentine Gallery London, Walker Arts Centre Minneapolis, Videonalle Kunstmuseum Bonn, Strossina Florence, Palazzo delle Arti Naples, Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, Germany.

Her films independent films are distributed by LUX: https://lux.org.uk/artist/charlotte-ginsborg

She also works as a commercial director, camera operator and DOP.
Represented by Wizzo and Co
https://wizzoandco.co.uk/diary-service?category=operator
Clients include:
Lancôme, Burberry, Bulgari for Nick Knight, EE, Stella Artois, Nike, UBS, Marks & Spencer, Pepsi Max, Wella, Women Without Borders, Imams on Line, Poetry in the City, Project Art Works, Concord Prison Trust, FAST (Families Against Stress & Trauma)