2024Nominee
Best Director
Memes & Nightmares
Charles Todd
Director · Producer · Writer
March 23, 1989
Biography
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2018Nominee
Best Director
On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
2021Nominee
Best Director
Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
Career Highlights
2015Highlight
Best Picture
Pentatonix: On My Way Home
2021Highlight
Best Director
Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
Video
Memes & Nightmares
On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
Pentatonix: On My Way Home