Director
Charles Todd
Born March 23, 198911 films
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.
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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).
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.
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First watchRomeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium20217.5Their style at its most typical, and among their best-rated work.In this Concert he focuses on the star and most important defender of bachata, the Dominican singer and songwriter Romeo Santos, and his concert on September 21, 2019 at MetLife Stadium in…View filmFilmography
11 films as director- 2024Memes & NightmaresDirector
- 2021Lessons from the Water: Diving with a PurposeDirector
- 2021Romeo Santos: King of BachataDirector
- 2021Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues AwayDirector
- 2021Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife StadiumDirector
- 2020Celine Dion: CourageDirector
- 2020Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'Director
- 2020Behind Scriptonite's 2004Director
- 2018Apple Music Presents: ChrisDirector
- 2018On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - YoungbloodDirector
- 2017On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful TraumaDirector