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Following her mother’s death, a resourceful 12-year-old girl, Georgie (Lola Campbell), continues to live alone in their London-outskirts flat. She makes money stealing bikes with her friend, Ali (Alin Uzun), and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. It works like a charm until Jason (Harris Dickinson) shows up. Apparently, he’s her father — so long estranged that she doesn’t recognize him. Sizing him up as a rubbish dad (absent, messy, can’t cook), Georgie wonders why he’s suddenly taking an interest; especially when she’s doing just fine on her own, thank you very much.
The spirit, humor, and formal inventiveness that ripples through Scrapper sets it apart from much of British working-class cinema. A music video director since her teen years, Charlotte Regan pulls flavours from the world she grew up in to fashion a vibrant, joyful, imaginative story — full of flourish, aesthetic energy, and even talking spiders. Dickinson and newcomer Campbell bring a magical quality to this father-daughter story of two emotionally tangled people: a grieving kid thrust into adulthood and a father in over his head.
Scrapper debuted at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Charlotte Regan (Writer/Director)
Charlotte is a 24 year old filmmaker from North London who grew up making low and no budget music promos for local rappers and has created over 200 to date. Her first short film STANDBY premiered at TIFF and went on to be nominated for a BAFTA and her second short FRY-UP screened at BFI LFF, Sundance and Berlinale. She has since gone on to create the short film DODGEY DAVE starring Neil Maskell and produced by Stink Films, and the\BFI-funded short film ‘Drug Runner’. She is a Sundance Ignite Fellow and a BFI Future Film and New Talent Award winner.
You can watch Charlotte’s award winning short STANDBY below:
Standby from Charlotte Regan on Vimeo.
Theo Barrowclough (Producer)
Theo is a producer at DMC Film. Alongside overseeing development for the company’s film and TV slates, Theo runs the DMC x Vero Short Film Fund, which aims to support the most exciting emerging filmmakers in the UK. Most recently, Theo served as Associate Producer on CALM WITH HORSES, backed by Film4 and the IFB, starring Cosmo Jarvis and Barry Keoghan. DMC are currently developing a diverse range of projects, including THE KITCHEN, which has Kibwe Tavares on board to direct and Daniel Kaluuya attached to write and star, and DREADFUL NED, written by Joe Murtagh for Michael Fassbender to star.