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…

Known for

Memes & Nightmares

2024

Apple Music Presents: Chris

2018

On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood

2018

Behind Scriptonite's 2004

2020

Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away

2021

Celine Dion: Courage

2020

Pentatonix: On My Way Home

2015

Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'

2020

Romeo Santos: King of Bachata

2021

On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma

2017

Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium

2021

58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story

2021

Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose

2021

RD20

2016