Charlotte Eagar

Charlotte Eagar (born 1965) is a British journalist, filmmaker, novelist, and communications consultant. She is co-producer and co-founder of the Trojan Women Project, combined drama therapy and multi-media strategic communications project for Syrian refugees. Scooter man – the short rom-com directed by Kirsten Cavendish, which Eagar co-wrote and produced with her husband William Stirling and Kirsten Cavendish - won Audience-rated Best of the Fest at the LA Comedy Festival (2010) and Palm Springs (2010) and was selected, amongst other festivals, for Cannes Short Film Corner (2010). The documentary about the Trojan Women Project’s 2013 pilot programme in Jordan, Queens of Syria, directed by Yasmin Fedda - which Eagar Executive Produced - has won many awards, including Best Director in the Arab World at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (2014) (for a full list of awards see the director Yasmin Fedda's website) and is studied on the syllabus at UCLA and Austen University Texas, amongst other universities. The Trojans (2019), the performance film of the Trojan Women’s latest Glasgow-based drama therapy project, was selected by the Scottish Government as a Special Edition Performance for the Edinburgh International Culture Summit 2020. For her work as a foreign correspondent in Bosnia during the war (1992-6), Eagar was runner up in the David Blundy Award for Foreign Stringer of the Year (1993) and runner up in Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year (Media Section) 1994. Early life and education Eagar grew up in the UK and read Classics at Oxford. She had previously studied at Edinburgh University. She is currently finishing a part-time MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh. She studied script-writing and film-making at the London Academy of Media, Film ,and TV, and at Raindance.