Charlotte Juergens is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, archival producer, and interdisciplinary scholar from Brooklyn, NY.

She recently directed the documentary feature Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day, which is represented by First Run Features and premiered theatrically in 2021. The film follows her experience traveling with a group of D-Day veterans on a pilgrimage to retrace their route from World War II. Charlotte’s filmmaking has been described as “classic cinéma vérité” and “akin to the work of Agnès Varda or Ross McElwee.”

As an archival producer, Charlotte’s collaborations have included archival work for PBS, the Smithsonian Channel, the Museum of the City of New York, the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum, the Connecticut State Library, and the Oscar-nominated short film Joe’s Violin. Her archival experience also includes two years at NBC News Archives, collaborating with documentarians and museum curators to research and license NBC footage for dozens of public humanities projects around the world.

Charlotte began her Ph.D. in American Culture at the University of Michigan in Fall 2021. With her dissertation, Charlotte will contribute to new directions in the field of American Studies by presenting her work through both writing and film. Her research explores how Americans commemorate contested history, focusing on COVID memorials. In connection with this work, Charlotte serves as co-curator for the traveling exhibit Commemorating COVID. She holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Yale University.