Charlie Lyne

Charlie Lyne (born 15 August 1991) is a British film critic and film-maker, best known for the films Beyond Clueless and Fear Itself.[1]

Career

Lyne established the movie blog Ultra Culture in 2008, at the age of 16. In 2010, Lyne joined the BBC programme Film 2010, after being approached by host Claudia Winkleman on Twitter. Lyne left the show after one season.[2]

Lyne's debut film Beyond Clueless premiered at SXSW in 2014.[3] His second, Fear Itself, debuted on the BBC iPlayer in October 2015.[4]

In 2016, Lyne crowd-funded a 607-minute film of white paint drying on a brick wall[5] to be submitted to the British Board of Film Classification in a protest against censorship and mandatory classification.[6] On 26 January 2016, the film was given a U rating for 'no material likely to offend or harm'.[7]

Filmography

References
  1. "Charlie Lyne". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  2. "Charlie Lyne - Ultra Culture". IDOL Magazine. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  3. "Beyond Clueless". South by Southwest. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  4. "BBC - Fear Itself - Media Centre". BBC. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  5. "Make the Censors Watch Paint Drying". Kickstarter. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  6. "I'm making the UK's film censorship board watch paint dry, for ten hours, starting right now! AMA.". Reddit. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  7. "A filmmaker trolled the British film board with an unbelievably long movie of paint drying". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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