Director
Charles Todd
37 years · 13 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. 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.
Best known for
Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
2021 · Director
Pentatonix: On My Way Home
2015 · Producer
Memes & Nightmares
2024 · Director, Writer
On Hulu
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
2021 · Director
On Kanopy
Celine Dion: Courage
2020 · Director
Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
2020 · Director
Filmography 13
Memes & Nightmares
2024 · Director, Writer
On Hulu
Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose
2021 · Director
Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
2021 · Director
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
2021 · Director
On Kanopy
Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
2021 · Director
Celine Dion: Courage
2020 · Director
Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
2020 · Director
Behind Scriptonite's 2004
2020 · Director
Apple Music Presents: Chris
2018 · Director
On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
2018 · Director
On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma
2017 · Director
RD20
2016 · Producer
Pentatonix: On My Way Home
2015 · Producer