Miryam Charles
Biography
Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. Her films have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally. Her first feature film This House was presented at the Berlinale, the AFI film festival this year and was also included in the TIFF Top 10 of the year . She also launched the short film At Dusk at the Locarno Film Festival. As a producer, she is currently working on the post-production of the series Still I Rise.
Filmography
- Le Marabout, feature film (development)
Role : scriptwriting, directing
La forge grant (Québec Cinéma/Netflix Canada)
Harold Greenberg Fund – option
Sodec grant
- Jou va jou vien, feature film (in development)
Role: co-writer, director
Production Trio Orange (Stéphanie Morissette)
Diversity of voices Banff/Netflix grant
- This House, feature documentary (2022)
Role: Script, direction, cinematography
Production Les films de l’embuscade (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
Talent Fund Grant (Telefilm Canada), SODEC, MELS Fund
Berlinale Forum 2022
Indie Lisboa 2022 * best feature film award
Viennale 2022
VIFF 2022
Olhar de Cinema 2022
Third Horizon Film Festival 2022
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2022
Frame of Representation 2022
Tapei Film Festival 2022
Art of the real 2022
Hotdocs 2022
Festival of New Cinema 2022
Memphis Film Festival 2022
Released in England in November 2022
- Au Crépuscule, short fiction film (2022)
Role: co-writer, director
Production Coop Vidéo (Karine Bélanger)
SODEC emerging creators grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Locarno film festival 2022
FIN 2022
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2022
- Song for the New World, experimental short film (2021)
Role: Script, direction, production
Production Cheminée Deux/Coop Vidéo (Karine Bélanger)
Grant from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2021
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma 2021
Regard sur le court métrage 2022
Filministe 2022 – Best Experimental Short Film Award
Halifax Film Festival 2022
Short Film Festival 2022
Broadcast on CBC GEM 2022
- Second Generation, experimental short film (2019)
Role: Writer, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019
Toronto International Film Festival 2019
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Cinema on the Bayou 2020
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma 2020
- The Red Album or Poetic Intention, short fiction film (2019)
Role: Script, direction, production, cinematography
Festival du nouveau cinéma grant – carte blanche
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2019 / Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2020
Mayles documentary center 2022
- Une Forteresse, experimental short film (2018)
Role : Script, direction, production
Labocine/Imagine Science Film Festival grant
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018
Vancouver Film Festival 2018
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2018
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2019
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin 2019
Dresden international short film Festival 2019
VIS international short film Festival 2019
Longue vue sur le court Festival 2019
Percéïdes 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020 - Three Atlas (Drei Atlas), experimental short film (2018)
Role: Writer, director, producer
Vancouver Film Festival 2018
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2018 * special mention of the jury
Aguilar Film Festival 2018
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma 2019 * best work of art and experimentation award
Dresden International Short Film Festival 2019
Port Moody Film Festival 2019
Leiden International Short Film Experience 2019
Theatrical release before the feature film City Dreamers 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Cinema on the bayou 2020 * best art and experimental short film award
Alchemy film festival 2021
MAC – group exhibition 2021
- Mosaic, collaborative feature film fiction/experimental (2017)
Role: co-director, co-writer
Imagine Science Film festival 2017
- Towards the Colonies, experimental short film (2016)
Role: Scriptwriter, director, producer
Festival du nouveau Cinéma 2016
Imagine Science Film festival 2016
Theatrical release (Cinémathèque Québécoise – as the first part of the feature film Déserts) 2016
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2017
Dresden film festival 2017
Talent tout court Berlin 2017
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin 2018
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
- Vole, vole tristresse, experimental short film (2016)
Role: Script, direction, production
Festival du nouveau Cinéma 2015 in the Focus section
Imagine Science Film festival 2015 (New York)
L’Alternativa independant film festival 2015
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2016 * best work of art and experimentation award
Prends ça court 2016 – winner for best experimental short film
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016
Vienna Independent Shorts 2016
Encounters film and animation festival 2016
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2018 (special program)
48 Frames Seconds Festival 2018 (Focus Haiti)
Black Canva film festival 2018
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Forum des images 2020