Biography
Director / Writer
Award-winning writer and director.
Selected Credits:
Film: PARADISE GROVE and ON THE 8 BALL
TV: SILENT VOICES, BROOKSIDE and SEX, DRUGS AND DINNER
Full Credits:
Cinema and TV Drama Director:
KING OF THE DOCKS
Writer-Director: cinema feature: casting
SILENT VOICES
Community Channel: Director: TV Talking Heads-style docu-drama: 60 mins
PARADISE GROVE
Writer-Director: cinema feature: 95 mins: Starring Ron Moody and Rula Lenska: In post production: Awards and nominations include: Winner of Best New Director: Palm Springs Festival of Festivals
ON THE 8 BALL
Channel 4: 30 min drama: Written and co-directed with Philip Chavannes
Selected Cannes Films Festival 2000: British Pavillion: British Shorts
BROOKSIDE
Channel 4: Directed 4 x 50-minute double episodes
BURGLARY BY ARTIFICE
Channel 4: Devised and directed short improvised drama
BRIGHTON KNOCKERS
Channel 4: Devised / directed: short improvised drama
JIMMY
Director: 35mm cinema short
TV Documentary Director-Writer:
SEX, DRUGS AND DINNER
With Alexei Sayle: BBC2: First Prize: Best Network Programme: One World Awards
DOWNBURST
World-wide TV distribution: Written / directed 30-min science-based drama-documentary TV film: Gold Awards: Chicago: BISFA
POST IMPRESSIONS
BBC2: Silver Award Chicago
THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL
Environmental documentary, narrated by James Stewart
MARC CHAGALL: THE COLOURS OF PASSION
Thames TV: Silver Awards: Melbourne Film Festival and Hemisfilm
Screenwriter:
ANGEL EYES
Feature film for Added Films,Netherlands: European Script Fund
BLUE MOON
Feature film script for Disfilmes, Portugal
LAND OF STONES
Feature film script for Costa do Castelo, Portugal: financed by European Script Fund: Director Ricardo Costa
LONGBOW
Original feature film script: Optioned: Packaged by CAA
ON THE FRONT LINE
Feature film script: co-written with Philip Chavannes: Optioned
Script Consultant Including:
(UNTITLED)
Script Consultant on retainer: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
SMALL TIME OBSESSION
Script Doctor: cinema feature: Piotr Szkopiak, UK
LEAP YEAR
Script Adviser: cinema feature: John Erasmus, UK
MORE THAN A WOMAN
Script Doctor: cinema feature: Joanna Garvin, UK
BARK PULSE
Script Editor: cinema feature: Dean Arnett: Stealing Thunder, UK
VIGILANCE
Script Editor: TV drama: Chris Cunningham, UK
OTTILIE
Script Doctor: cinema feature: John Wyndham / Simon Carne, UK
SOMEWHERE IN A DESERT
Script Doctor: treatment adaptation from novel: Holly Aylett, UK / Fr
GUILTY OR INNOCENT
Script Adviser: short film: Tano Mehmeti, UK
THE MATING GAME
Script Doctor: cinema feature: Abi Fisher, UK
THE GHOSTWRITER
Script Doctor: cinema feature: Lichtblick, Germany
SW FEEDBACK SERVICE
Script Consultant on feature and TV drama scripts
Theatre Director:
OUR FATHER
Director: Revival of award-winning New York play by Mick Stephens
LAUGH? I NEARLY WENT TO MIAMI!
Director: Modern farce by Miles Tredinnick: Comedy Hall Productions
SNAKES AND CAUSEWAYS
Script editor and director on full length rock musical: Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead: by Pete Bite and Tim Barker
SEPTEMBER ROCK
Musical devised by Charles Harris: New End Theatre
Biog:
Writer-director Charles Harris has come to directing features after a varied early career which ranged from freelance photographer to published short-story writer to fourth-level black belt in Aikido. He trained in acting with Peter Frye of Lee Strasberg's New York Actors Studio, before working his way up through the industry from projectionist to TV cutting-room assistant and then editor for BBC and LWT and then finally director of internationally award-winning TV documentaries and docu-drama.
The time he spent as a photographer early in his career can be seen in his strongly visual style, and his sensitive handling of actors can be seen in his work with a wide variety of talents from James Stewart and Ron Moody to Amanda Burton and Alexei Sayle. His debut feature film as director - Paradise Grove - was released in 2005 and won international awards and nominations including Best New Director at the Palm Springs Festival of Festivals.
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