FrameThrower · Actors · Charlie Shotwell
Charlie Shotwell
3 films · 149 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2016–2020
Born 17 July 2007 · Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Charlie Shotwell is an American actor. He started acting professionally at the age of six. His first notable role was being the young Nai Cash in the 2016 comedy-drama film Captain Fantastic for which he received nominations for SAG Awards and Young Artist Awards. He was lead of the Netflix horror film Eli (2019), starred in the psychological thriller John and the Hole (2021), and appeared in the comedy film Troop Zero (2019).
How their films are shot
Measured across 149 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charlie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Charlie takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 149 frames from Charlie Shotwell's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.