BIOGRAPHIE

Charles Fairbanks makes “entertaining and heartfelt films [that] are extremely easy to enjoy and very hard to forget" (Anthology Film Archives). These films have shown on POV and at CPH:DOX, Ambulante, Visions du Réel, Art of the Real, and over 100 other festivals across five continents. They’ve been awarded for their humor and sensitivity, for depicting women’s experience, indigenous life, familial struggles and the documentary encounter. This work has garnered support from the Guggenheim foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Wexner Art Center. Fairbanks has written for Senses of Cinema and programmed for Belgian festival Courtisane. He founded the Media Arts program at Antioch College, and currently lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Previously, Charles Fairbanks and Saul Kak co-directed THE MODERN JUNGLE / LA SELVA NEGRA (2016), a provocative documentary portrait of globalization, focused on a Zoque shaman who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme marketed nutritional supplement. THE MODERN JUNGLE won jury awards at Slamdance and Athens, and was awarded Best Documentary at Présence Autochtone: the First Nations Festival of Montreal. It premiered at Visions du Réel, screened at dozens of festivals including Art of the Real, Ann Arbor, and Ambulante, and was selected by multiple critics as one of the best Latino films of 2016.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2020 ( ( ( ( ( /* ) ) ) ) ) Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Editing, Camera, Editing, Camera
• 2012 Flexing Muscles Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Editing, Camera, Editing, Camera
• 2010 Pioneers Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing
• 2010 Irma Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Editing, Camera, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing