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Miryam Charles is a Haitian- Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec,Radheyan Simonpillai
"Canada’s Rising Screen Stars: Miryam Charles"
'' Now'', April 6, 2022.
whose debut feature film '' This House (Cette maison)'' was released in 2022. The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award, and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022. An alumna of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at
Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...
, Charles previously directed a number of short films, and has been a producer and cinematographer on several films by Olivier Godin.


Career

Her films have been exhibited in film festivals and museum institutions throughout the Americas and Europe. ''This House'' has its world premiere at the 2022 Berlinale Forum at Berlin International Film Festival, the AFI Film Festival, and the TIFF Top 10 of the year. Her short film ''At Dusk'', was first released at the
Locarno Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...
, in Italy. Miryam Charles received awards at IndieLisboa and the
Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival The Trinidad and Tobago film festival (ttff) is a film festival in the Anglophone Caribbean. It takes place annually in Trinidad and Tobago in the latter half of September, and runs for approximately two weeks. The festival screens feature-length n ...
. The artist has had museum presentations at
Block Museum of Art The Block Museum of Art is a free public art museum located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Block Museum was established in 1980 when Chicago art collectors Mary (daughter of Albert Lasker) and Leigh B. Block ( ...
, Northwestern University, and University of Iowa. Her film ''Song for the New World'' is in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and ''Drei Atlas'' is in the collection of Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada. Her short film ''All the Days of May (Tous les jours de mai)'' screened in the Short Cuts program at the
2023 Toronto International Film Festival The 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 7 to 17, 2023.Victoria Ahearn"TIFF reveals new programmers and other 2023 festival details" '' Playback'', April 20, 2023. The most noted change from past years was tha ...
.


Favorite films

In 2022, Charles participated in the '' Sight & Sound'' film polls of that year. It is held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, by asking contemporary directors to select ten films of their choice.https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/miryam-charles Charles selections were: * ''
Goodbye, Dragon Inn ''Goodbye, Dragon Inn'' () is a 2003 Taiwanese comedy-drama slow cinema film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang about a movie theater about to close down and its final screening of the 1967 wuxia film '' Dragon Inn''. Plot During the las ...
'' (2003) * '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1982) * '' Losing Ground'' (1998) * ''
Recordações da Casa Amarela ''Recollections of the Yellow House'' ( pt, Recordações da Casa Amarela) is a 1989 Portuguese film directed by João César Monteiro. Plot João de Deus, a middle-aged man, lives in a cheap boarding house in an old part of Lisbon. He relies on ...
'' (1989) * '' They all Laughed'' (1981) * '' Finye'' (1982) * ''
Mysterious Object at Noon ''Mysterious Object at Noon'' ( th, ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร, or ''Dokfa nai meuman'', literally ''Dokfa in the Devil's Hand'')Stephens, Chuck. 2001-06-18 ''Village Voice'', retrieved 2007-03-27. is a 2000 Thai independent experim ...
'' (2000) * ''De lo mio'' (2019) * ''
Written on the Wind ''Written on the Wind'' is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. It follows the dysfunctional family members of a Texas oil dynas ...
'' (1956) * '' Bamako'' (2006)


Filmography

*''Fly, Fly Sadness (Vole, vole tristesse)'' - 2015 *''Toward the Colonies'' - 2016 *''Mosaic'' - 2017 *''A Fortress'' - 2018 *''Drei Atlas'' - 2018 *''Second Generation'' - 2019 *''Song for the New World (Chanson pour le Nouveau Monde)'' - 2021 *'' This House (Cette maison)'' - 2022 *''At Dusk (Au crépuscule)'' - 2022 *''All the Days of May (Tous les jours de mai)'' - 2023


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Charles, Miryam 21st-century Canadian screenwriters 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women screenwriters Canadian screenwriters in French Canadian women film directors Film directors from Montreal Black Canadian filmmakers Black Canadian women writers Black Canadian writers Canadian people of Haitian descent Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Film producers from Quebec Canadian women film producers