Charlotte Colbert's mother is the French journalist Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, with whom Goldsmith openly had a long-term relationship while married to Annabel Goldsmith.
18 Facts About Charlotte Colbert
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Charlotte Colbert went to 12 different schools and lived with various relatives before graduating high school in France.
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Charlotte Colbert studied philosophy and liberal arts in Montreal and then went on to become European distributor for the moon-cup.
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Charlotte Colbert had made short animations when she enrolled at the London Film School to do her MA in screenwriting.
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Charlotte Colbert started working on her series Ordinary Madness after seeing her friend's two-year-old press their fingers against a pane of glass where a butterfly had landed and try to zoom into the creature to make it bigger.
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Charlotte Colbert was completely baffled by the simplicity of this gesture, which collapsed the physical 3D world and the digital 4D world in an instant.
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Charlotte Colbert has been exhibited internationally, including Basel, and Istanbul Art Fair, Philip's, Christies and Sothebys as well as Institutions and Museums.
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Charlotte Colbert did not see him for 65 years until finally she was allowed a 3-day visit to North Korea during which her son, now in his sixties, was able to see his father for the first time.
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Charlotte Colbert collaborated with singer Kate Nash on a video and song to support the team.
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Charlotte Colbert is the co-author of feature film Leave to Remain about underage asylum seekers in Britain with a score by Mercury Prize-winning band Alt-J.
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Charlotte Colbert wrote and directed two award winning animated shorts The Girl With Liquid Eyes with Maryam d'Abo and The Man With the Stolen Heart with Bill Nighy based on her book of short stories Topsy Turvy Tales.
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Charlotte Colbert is a producer on Dali Land directed by Mary Harron, co-produced with Pressman Films.
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Charlotte Colbert directed and co-wrote She Will with Alice Krige, Kota Eberhart, Malcolm McDowell, and Rupert Everett produced by Dario Argento and Ed Pressman Films with an original score by Clint Mansell.
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Charlotte Colbert is the founder of Popcorn Group, a production company known for the short Leading Lady Parts, as well as for co-producing Fleabag in the WestEnd, and Alice Lowe's time travelling romcom TimeStalker with the BFI.
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Charlotte Colbert was one of the publishers of The Artists Colouring Book of ABCs done in support of the Kids Company, featuring works by Grayson Perry, Alex Katz, and Tracey Emin.
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Charlotte Colbert set up the Popcorn Writing Award in Edinburgh, and now runs it with the BBC Writersroom.
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Charlotte Colbert set up the NFTS x Popcorn Writing Award which allocates a prize to the most original script from NFTS film school screenwriting graduates.
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Charlotte Colbert is on the board of the Isla Foundation and the Ecology Trust.