For our next in-person DAILIESESSIONS, award winning film-makers Charlotte Regan and Harry Lighton will both lead a session that explores the intricate journey of moving from short films to your debut feature.

Accomplished in the short form with their BAFTA-nominated work screening at Sundance, Berlinale and several other prestigious festivals, Charlotte and Harry will break down the process and language of long form storytelling through making their successful debuts Scrapper (2024) and Pillion (2025). The film-makers will dissect the process of working on their scripts, navigating the development process, finding the right producers and collaborators and finally, grasping the complex nuances of a feature length production.

Is a feature film just a longer, bigger short? How do you navigate notes and the development process? How do you maintain your creative vision and voice through the script stage, shoot, right through to post production?

CHARLOTTE REGAN

Charlotte Regan’s internationally-acclaimed debut feature Scrapper won the World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance (2023) and was nominated for Best British Film at 2024’s BAFTAs, where Charlotte was named a Breakthrough Brit.

Charlotte began her career shooting low-budget Grime promos, her first short ‘StandBy” was nominated for a BAFTA, her second short ‘Fry Up’, screened at Sundance and Berlinale, while her third ‘Dodgy Dave’ was presented at BFI Festival London and TIFF.

She has helmed episodes of ‘The Responder’ (BBC) and ‘Buccaneers’ (Apple TV). Charlotte is currently on post production on ‘MINT’ – an eight-part BBC series she has wrote and directed.

HARRY LIGHTON

Harry Lighton is a British writer-director currently based in London. His short WREN BOYS was nominated for Best British Short at the 2018 BAFTAs.  It was also shortlisted for a BIFA, won Best UK Short at the UK Film Festival, and had its US Premiere at Sundance.

Harry was then was assistant to director Oliver Hermanus for the 2022 re-telling of Kurosawa's Ikiru, LIVING starring Bill Nighy. His feature directorial debut, Pillion had its World Premiere at the 78th Cannes Film Festival where it won Best Screenplay at the Un Certain Regard Awards.