Years active 2011-present Role Film director | Name Charles Rogers | |
Full Name George Charles Sherson Rogers Born July 5, 1987 (age 37) ( 1987-07-05 ) Dallas, Texas, U.S. Occupation Film DirectorScreenwriterActorComedian Movies Fort Tilden, Black Dog - Red Dog, The Foxy Merkins, Let's Not Panic, Autumn Whispers Similar People Sarah‑Violet Bliss, Clare McNulty, Bridey Elliott, Griffin Newman, Bella Wing‑Davey | ||
Charles Rogers is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his movie Fort Tilden.
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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.
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.
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.
