Charles Rogers (director)

Charles Rogers
Born George Charles Sherson Rogers
(1987-07-05) July 5, 1987
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
  • Film Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
  • Comedian
Years active 2011-present

Charles Rogers is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his movie Fort Tilden.

Films

Rogers attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts MFA film program.

His 2014 film Fort Tilden, written and directed in collaboration with Sarah-Violet Bliss, premiered at SXSW where it won the Grand Jury Award and was subsequently acquired by revived Orion Pictures. The film was released on August 14, 2015 theatrically and through video on demand.[1][2][3][4]

Rogers is one of the filmmakers behind the multi-director feature film, Black Dog, Red Dog, produced by James Franco and Rabbit Bandini Productions, starring Logan Marshall-Green and Chloe Sevigny, which premiered at the 2015 International Film Festival of Guanajuato.[5][6][7]

Television

Charles Rogers has written for the Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer as well as for the second season of the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle.

Bliss and Rogers have teamed up again to create the pilot presentation Search Party, which was written by the two and Michael Showalter. The pilot will focus on a group of four people that come together when a former college friend mysteriously disappears, starring Alia Shawkat, John Early, John Reynolds, and Meredith Hagner.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Kolmar, Jim. "SXSW FILM AWARDS ANNOUNCED!". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ↑ http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_FS14991
  3. ↑ http://variety.com/2015/film/news/fort-tilden-distribution-sxsw-orion-1201455504/
  4. ↑ http://www.indiewire.com/article/exclusive-poster-for-sxsw-winner-fort-tilden-shows-an-angsty-millennial-summer-20150629
  5. ↑ http://giff.festivalgenius.com/2015/films/perronegroperrorojoblackdogreddog_jamesfranco_giff2015
  6. ↑ http://www.giff.mx/?page_id=9350
  7. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2171791/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  8. ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/arrested-development-alum-alia-shawkat-803850

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