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 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.
Crew
Movie
Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
Director
2021
Movie
Pentatonix: On My Way Home
Producer
2015
Movie
Memes & Nightmares
Director
2024
Movie
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
Director
2021
TV
Magic City: An American Fantasy
Director
2025
Movie
On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma
Director
2017
Movie
Celine Dion: Courage
Director
2020
Movie
Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
Director
2020
Movie
Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose
Director
2021
Movie
58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
Executive Producer
2021
Movie
Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
Director
2021
Movie
RD20
Producer
2016