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Charles Todd
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 premiere…
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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). 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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2025
Magic City: An American Fantasy
TV show Director
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2024
Memes & Nightmares
Movie Director
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2021
Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose
Movie Director
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2021
Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
Movie Director
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2021
58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
Movie Director
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2021
Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
Movie Director
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2020
Celine Dion: Courage
Movie Director
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2020
Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
Movie Director
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2020
Behind Scriptonite's 2004
Movie Director
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2018
Apple Music Presents: Chris
Movie Director
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2018
On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
Movie Director
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2017
On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma
Movie Director
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2016
RD20
Movie Producer
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2015
Pentatonix: On My Way Home
Movie Producer
