Myriam Charles
Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, 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, Charles previously directed a number of short films, and has been a producer and cinematographer on several films by Olivier Godin.
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- Name
- Miryam Charles
- Occupation
- film director, film producer, cinematographer
- Education
- Collège Ahuntsic, Concordia University
- Born
- 1984 · Montreal.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- experimental film · documentary film
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Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec, 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, Charles previously directed a number of short films, and has been a producer and cinematographer on several films by Olivier Godin.
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Myriam Charles studied at Collège Ahuntsic and Concordia University. The field of work recorded is experimental film and documentary film. Residence is recorded at Montreal. Work by Myriam Charles is recorded in the collections of Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
Filmmaker Miryam Charles at Vienna Independent Shorts 2016 (Metro-Kino, Vienna, Austria).
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Filmmaker Miryam Charles with Dan Karo and Daniel Ebner at Vienna Independent Shorts 2016 (Metro-Kino, Vienna, Austria).
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Key facts
• Name — Miryam Charles • Occupation — film director, film producer, cinematographer • Education — Collège Ahuntsic, Concordia University
Career
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, in Italy. Charles received awards at IndieLisboa and the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. The artist has had museum presentations at Block Museum of Art, 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. In 2025, she was named the inaugural recipient of the Charles Officer Award at the opening of the Canada's Top Ten screening series.
Filmography
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 • Treasure Island (L’île aux trésors) - 2026
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- 1.Radio-Canada. Le premier film de Miryam Charles, sélectionné à la Berlinale. 2022-01-18.
- 2.Miryam Charles / Marie-Ève Juste x 4. 24 images.
- 3.La vie après la vie après la mort : Entretien avec Miryam Charles. Cinémaniak. 2020-12-15.
- 4.Portrait du TIFF: Miryam Charles. Voir.ca.
- 5.Olivier Godin: réaliser sans amertume. La Presse. 2014-06-23.
- 6.Pays des âmes, Le – Film d’Olivier Godin. Films du Québec.
- 7.Nouvelles, Nouvelles. Québec Cinéma.
- 8.Miryam Charles. Main Film.
- 9.[Gala FCTMN] La réalisatrice Miryam Charles honorée d'être lauréate au 21e gala FCTMN. Le Lien MULTIMÉDIA :: le portail des professionnels du numérique au Québec.
- 10.Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma: noir désir. La Presse. 2018-02-24.
- 11.film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire. www.film-documentaire.fr.
- 12.Les gagnants des Prix du court métrage RVCQ 2016. Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.
- 13.La vie après la vie après la mort : Entretien avec Miryam Charles CINÉMANIAK. 2020-12-15.
- 14.Miryam Charles / Marie-Ève Juste x 4. 24 images.
- 15.Investir dans l'imaginaire de Miryam Charles. Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
- 16.Radio-Canada. Québec Cinéma et Netflix dévoilent le nom des deux gagnantes du programme pour la relève. 2020-03-07.
- 17.«Cette maison»: une première à Berlin. Le Journal de Montréal.
- 18.Sous le signe du souvenir…. La Presse+. 2022-02-14.
- 19.Revivre le festival « en vrai ». La Presse+. 2022-02-10.
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