Charles Todd
Directing
- Born
- March 23, 1989 (age 37)
Charles is an award-winning director focused on the preservation of identity. In feature documentaries, Charles directed Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Feature Documentary at the 2022 Pan-African Film Festival, and Romeo Santos: King of Bachata, which was nominated for a Latin Grammy and currently airs on HBO Max.
For CNN, Charles directed “Lessons From The Water: Diving With A Purpose” (“DWP”), featuring a group of black archaeologists with the goal to restore the nearly 500 voyages shipwrecked during the slave trade to historial record. In 2021, “DWP” and Charles were featured in MIPAD (Most Influential People of African Descent).
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Charles’ most recent work includes the upcoming docuseries “Magic City: An American Fantasy” which premiered at the 2024 SxSW Film Festival and the basketball mockumentary “Memes & Nightmares”, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.
Known for
Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
June 25, 2021
Pentatonix: On My Way Home
June 18, 2015
Memes & Nightmares
June 12, 2024
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
July 27, 2021
On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma
October 13, 2017
Celine Dion: Courage
August 23, 2020
Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
May 22, 2020
Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose
August 7, 2021
58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
July 31, 2021
Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
August 6, 2021
RD20
June 25, 2016
On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
June 11, 2018
Behind the camera14
- 2024Memes & Nightmares Director, Writer
- 2021Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose Director
- 2021Romeo Santos: King of Bachata Director
- 202158 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story Executive Producer
- 2021Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away Director
- 2021Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium Director
- 2020Celine Dion: Courage Director
- 2020Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Director
- 2020Behind Scriptonite's 2004 Director
- 2018