Charlotte Glynn was born in New York and spent her formative years in Pittsburgh PA. She got received her BFA in Film at SUNY Purchase. In 2009 she finished her first feature film Rachel is, a documentary about her sister Rachel who is developmentally disabled. Rachel is, is being distributed by Seventh Art Releasing and has won an Accolade award for Best Documentary Film and Best Documentary at the Thin Line Film Festival.
Charlotte was named one of the 10 filmmakers to watch in 2010 by Independent. She has also received a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Media Arts, two Heinz Endowment, and residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. She lives in Brooklyn where she is working on the next two installments of the Pittsburgh Trilogy (football and gymnastics) and pursuing her MFA in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts.