Home

Charles Todd (b. 1989)

Born:
March 23, 1989

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Film Production

Director:
2017  On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma
2018  Apple Music Presents: Chris
2018  On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
2020  Behind Scriptonite's 2004
2020  Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
2020  Celine Dion: Courage
2021  Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away
2021  Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose
2021  Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
2021  Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
2024  Memes & Nightmares

Executive Producer:
2017  On the Record: P!NK — Beautiful Trauma
2018  Apple Music Presents: Chris
2018  On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood
2020  Behind Scriptonite's 2004
2020  Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'
2020  Celine Dion: Courage
2021  58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
2021  Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away
2021  Lessons from the Water: Diving with a Purpose
2021  Romeo Santos: King of Bachata
2021  Romeo Santos: Utopia Live from MetLife Stadium
2024  Memes & Nightmares

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

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

TV Production

Director:
2024  Magic City: An American Fantasy

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.