Miryam Charles
Filmmaker | Director of Photography
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
Borel
In development, estimated for 2027
Feature film
Writer, Director
The Day Will Come (Le jour viendra)
In development, estimated for 2026
Feature
Co-Writer, Director
Le Marabout
In post-production TBR 2025
Feature
Writer, Director
Production Voyelles Films (Guillaume Vasseur, Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette)
*Sholarship (Bourse) La Forge (Québec Cinéma/ Netflix Canada)
*Fond Harold Greenberg – option
Treasure Island (L'île aux trésors)
In development, estimated for 2025
Short film
Writer, Director
Production Coop Vidéo (Karine Bélanger)
Every Day in May (Tous les jours de mai)
2023
Short film
Writer, Director, Producer
* FESTIVALS
Premiere : Prismatic Ground - New York 2023
BFI London film festival - Londres 2023
Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver 2023
Atlantic International Film Festival - Halifax 2023
Montreal Nouveau Cinema Festival - Montréal 2023
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin - Paris 2023
London Short Film Festival - Londres 2024
Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma - Montréal 2024
Festival Filministes - Montréal 2024
International Film Festival Ottawa - Ottawa 2024
Courts d'un soir - Montréal 2024
Macao International Shorts Film Festival - Macao 2024
Côté court - Pantin 2024
This House (Cette Maison)
2022
Screenwriter | Director
Production Les films de l’embuscade (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
*World Premiered at Berlinale 2022
* Shcolarship (Bourse) "Fonds des Talents" (Téléfilm Canada), SODEC, Fonds MELS
* FESTIVALS
Premiere : Berlinale Forum - Allemagne 2022
Art of the Real - Film at Lincoln Center - New York 2022
IndieLisboa - Portugal 2022
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival - Toronto 2022
The Block Museum of Art - Chicago 2022
Frames of Representation - ICA Londres 2022
Olhar de Cinema (Curitiba IFF) - Brésil 2022
Third Horizon Film Festival - Miami 2022 - film d’ouverture
Taipei IFF- Taïwan 2022
Nowe Horyzonty - Pologne 2022
Trinidad + Tobago - Trinidad et Tobago 2022
Quebecine - Cineteca Nacional México- Mexique 2022
Montréal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - Montréal 2022
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris - Paris 2022
Martinique Film Festival (CineMartinique), Martinique - 2022
Indie Memphis - Memphis 2022
CinemAfrica, Stockholm - Suède 2022
Viennale - Autriche 2022
Perspectives Film Festival - Singapour 2022
UnionDocs - New York 2022
AFI FEST Film Festival - Los Angeles 2022
Novos Cinema Film Festival - Espagne 2022
Pan African film festival - Los Angeles 2023
Festival des films de femmes de Créteil - France 2023
BAM - Brooklyn 2023
Punto de Vista - Espagne 2020
FICCI - Argentine 2023
Vue du Québec - France 2023
Black Women and Cinema, Cine Humberto Mauro - Brésil 2023
DC Caribbean Film Festival - Anglettere 2023
Shanghai International Film Festival - Belt and Road Film Week - Chine 2023
Valencia International Film Festival Cinema Jove - Espagne 2023
Frameout, Vienna - Autriche 2023
Haiti International Film Festival - Miami 2023
aemi institute - Irlande 2023
Alliance Cine Caraibes - Human Rights Film Festival Guadaloupe - Guadeloupe 2023
The New School - New York 2023
Metrograph Cinema - Haunted House curated series - New York 2023
Vermont Int. Film Festival - Vermont 2023
CRFIC - Costa Rica Int. Film Festival - Costa Rica 2023
MIDBO - Bogota International Documentary Film Festival - Colombie 2023
* AWARDS
Silvestre Award for Best Feature Film - IndieLisboa
Best Narrative Feature - Trinidad + Tobago FF
Innovation Award - Montréal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Best Departures Feature - Indie Memphis FF
Best Poster Design - Indie Memphis FF
Mention Spécial du jury - Vues du Québec
Cette maison is featured in :
Sight and Sound: 50 best films of 2022
Little White Lies : 30 best films of 2020
Canada Top Ten 2022
Revue Séquences : Meilleurs films de l’année 2022
NY Times: Five International Movies to Stream Now
At Dusk (Au crépuscule)
In pre-production
Short Film
Co-screenwriter | Director
Production Coop Vidéo (Karine Bélanger)
*Scholarship (Bourse) SODEC - Emerging Talent
* FESTIVALS
Première mondiale Festival de Locarno - Sélection officielle, Suisse 2022
Festival des films de l’atlantique - Sélection officielle, Halifax 2022
Festival du nouveau cinéma - Sélection officielle, Montréal 2022
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma - Sélection officielle, Montréal 2023
Crossed Paths (Chemins croisés)
2022
Short film
Writer, Director
Production RD Création (Rhodnie Désir)
* FESTIVALS
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal - Sélection officielle, Montréal 2022
Song for the New World (Chanson pour le nouveau monde)
2021
Short film
Screenwriter | Director | Producer
Production Cheminée Deux/Coop Vidéo (Karine Bélanger)
*Scholarship Quebec Council of Arts and Letters
* FESTIVALS
Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal 2021
FICFA - Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie - Moncton 2021
Journées du Cinéma québécois en Italie - Naples 2022
Regard - Saguenay International Short Film Festival - Chicoutimi 2022
Festival vues sur mer - Canada, 2022
FilmFest Dresden- Allemagne 2022
Alchemy Film Festival - Londres 2022
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - Paris - Berlin 2022
Les filministes, - Montréal 2022
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival - Halifax 2022
Future of Film Showcase (FOFS) - Toronto 2022
Gimli Film Festival - Montréal 2022
Courts d'un soir - Montréal 2022
Les Percéides (Grande Rencontre des Arts médiatiques en Gaspésie) - Gaspé 2022
Grand Canyon Cinema - San Francisco 2022
London Short film festival - Londres 2023
* AWARD
Best film art and essai, Les filministes, - Montréal 2022
The Times (Les Temps)
2021
Short film
Writer, Director, Producer
* FESTIVALS
Third Horizon film Festival - Miami 2021
Second Generation (Deuxième génération )
2019
Short film
Screenwriter | Director | Cinematographer | Producer
* FESTIVALS
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019
Toronto international Film Festival (TIFF) 2019
Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Cinema on the Bayou 2020
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma 2020
The Red Album or The Poetic Intention ( L’Album rouge ou l’intention poétique) I
2019
Short film
Screenwriter | Director | Cinematographer | Producer
*Scholarship (Bourse) festival du nouveau cinéma – carte blanche
* FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2020
Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) 2019
A Fortress (Une forteresse)
2018
Short film
Screenwriter | Director | Producer
*Sholarship Labocine | Imagine Science Film Festival
* FESTIVALS
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018
Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) 2018
Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) 2018
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2019
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin 2019
Dresden international short film Festival 2019
VIS international short film Festival 2019
Festival Longue vue sur le court 2019
Percéïdes 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Dresden international short film Festival 2024 (special program)
Three Atlas (Drei Atlas)
2018
Short film
Screenwriter | Director | Producer
* AWARDS
Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) 2018 * Jury special mention
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma 2019 * Best art and essai film
Cinema on the bayou 2020 * Best art and essai film
* FESTIVALS
Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) 2018
Aguilar Film Festival 2018
Dresden international short film Festival 2019
Port Moody Film Festival 2019
Leiden International Short Film Experience 2019
Sortie en salles avant le long-métrage City Dreamers 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Alchemy film festival 2021
*Acquired for the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal from the national collection
Mosaic
2017
Collaborative feature fim : (directed by : Joséphine Decker, Alexis Gambis, Miryam Charles, Barry J.Gibb, Ian Harnarine, Noah Hutton, Demelza Kooji, Jeannette Louis, Rachel Mayeri, Sally Warring)
Co-Writer, Co-Director
* FESTIVAL
Imagine Science Film festival 2017
To the Colonies (Vers les colonies)
2016
Short film
Writer, Director, Producer
* FESTIVALS
Festival du nouveau Cinéma (FNC) 2016
Imagine Science Film festival 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
Fly, Fly Sadness (Vole, vole tristesse)
2016
Short film
Writer, Director, Producer
* AWARDS
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2016 - Best art and essai film
Prends ça court 2016 – Best art and essai film
* FESTIVALS
Festival du nouveau Cinéma (FNC) 2015
Imagine Science Film festival 2015
L'Alternativa independant film festival 2015
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016
Vienna Independant Shorts 2016
Encounters film and animation festival 2016
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2018 (special program)
Festival 48 images secondes 2018 (Focus Haïti)
Black Canva film festival 2018
Third Horizon Film Festival 2020
Forum des images 2020
Cinematography
Grenadières
In development, TBR 2024
Feature documentary
Director Halima Elkhatabi
Production Les films de L’Autre
An Alé
In development, TBR 2024
Short film
Director Schelby Jean-Baptiste
Production Annaëlle Béglet
*Scholarship SACD production
*Scholarship Black on Black Films
Une fois c't'un noir
2022
Docu serie
Director Frederic Pierre
Production Urbania
Stream on Crave
Big (Grosse)
2021
Comedy show
Director Chloé Robichaud
Production Deux par deux
Stream on Crave
News, News (Nouvelles, nouvelles)
2014
Feature film
Director Olivier Godin
Feu de Bengale
2014
Short film
Director of photography
Director Olivier Godin
Production Cheminée Deux
Production
The Night of the Falls (La nuit des chutes)
Short Film
Short Film
Director Ariane Bilodeau (post-production)
Producer
* Scholarship Quebec Council of Arts and Letters, SODEC
Stealthily from wild fears (À pas furtifs des peurs sauvages)
2020
Short film
Director Raphaël J.Dostie (post-production)
Executive Producer
*Scholarship Canada Council of Arts and Letters
Related Experiences
RETROSPECTIVES
Cinémathèque québécoise - avril 2019
Third Horizon Film Festival - février 2020
Union Docs Fellows - octobre 2020
London Film Festival - 2023
Criterion Channel - prévu pour 2024
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EXHIBITS
Ce qui n’est plus, pas encore - Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen - février/avril 2020
Ou une autre vie - Dazibao - janvier 2021
Ne dites à personne ce que je fais lorsque je suis seul.e - Musée d’art contemporain avril /mai 2021
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PROGRAMMING
Focus Québec (Dresden Short Film Festival) - septembre 2020
Cinéma moderne (Boiling Point) - septembre 2020/novembre 2020 (en ligne)
Cinéma moderne (Black Lives Matter) - Novembre 2020
Cinéma moderne (L’autre est toi) - Décembre 2020
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COMMITTEES
Comité diversité et inclusion - Cinémathèque Québécoise
Comité artistique aux expositions - Cinémathèque Québécoise
Comité consultation diversité - Fonds des Médias Canadiens
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BOARD
Rencontres internationales du documentaire (RIDM) - 2022/2024
Coop vidéo de Montréal - 2021/2024
Centre d’artistes Dazibao - 2022/2024