Charly Gautier is a London-based filmmaker and performer working across narrative and documentary cinema.
Growing up queer, he escaped into imagined worlds, inventing characters, rewriting reality, turning solitude into a narrative. What started as homemade films on a pixelated Android phone became a fascination with films as a means of transformation: the power to reframe trauma through catharsis, the ability to showcase beauty with meaning.
Armed with his first camera and a best friend turned cinematographer, he embarked on his debut feature, a reimagining of Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks, portraying fourteen characters across genders in a two-year journey spanning Spain and the French Alps. It marked the beginning of his acting signature: multi-character performance as a form of emotional excavation and a deep interest for empathetic storytelling around trauma and identity, bringing visibility to characters seeking understanding, truth but above all the freedom to be. The film led to a European screening tour, a French television interview, and a masterclass in Paris.
Since moving to London, he created The Charly Diaries, a diaristic web series exploring identity and artistic becoming. His documentary work includes upcoming projects commissioned and produced by collaborators, namely, Gaia Elkington and Harvey John (The Developing Room), and supported by companies such as CANON or the Sziget Festival.
As a videographer, Charly currently works with a wide range of clients around culture and personal branding, centering women and queer stories, broadening his filmmaking skills to allow new voices to showcase their craft, brands or message.
Charly is currently developing a short film exploring the thin layer of desire and danger and a feature-length modern re-imagining of Lolita.
