FILM & TELEVISION
After an early career in theatre, Charles Sharman-Cox has worked exclusively as a writer, director, and editor for film and television.
In 2018 he directed and edited Caliban Remix, which won multiple awards at film festivals around the world. In 2019 he directed and performed in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart, winning ten international awards including Best Horror at Cannes Short Film Festival, Best International Short Film at Idyllwild, and Best Actor at the Global Shorts Awards.
In 2020 he collaborated with Starving Artists Theatre of Los Angeles on Los Angeles Fever Dream, an LGBTQ drama filmed in Hollywood and Malibu that received awards at the Independent Shorts Awards, Accord Cine Fest, and Phoenix Short Film Festival.
His screenplay In Absentia was selected for the Hamburg Film Awards in 2022, and earned an Honourable Mention at the Snow Leopard Festival in Madrid. After its 2023 completion, it won Best Short Film at the Toronto Awards Film Festival, International Motion Picture Awards, and Purple Sky International Film Festival.
