EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed award-winning Afro-Indigenous author, filmmaker, and comic Chad Charlie for illustration.
Identified for specializing in Indigenous pleasure and underrepresented tales, Charlie was a author on FX’s Emmy-nominated collection Reservation Canines and has since labored as a author on Prime Video’s upcoming Legally Blonde prequel comedy collection Elle from Hey Sunshine. At present, he’s additionally serving as govt producer and author on Working Smoke, a docuseries in manufacturing with CBC.
A local of Seattle, Washington, Charlie started his profession in stand-up comedy and spoken phrase earlier than increasing into movie and tv. His brief movies Firecracker Bullets and Uuʔuu~tah discover themes of id, cultural preservation, and resilience, and have screened at festivals internationally. A Movie Impartial Amplifier Fellow, Charlie has additionally been chosen for the Sundance Episodic Lab and imagineNATIVE Administrators Lab.
In a press release to Deadline, Charlie mentioned, “I signed with Verve as a result of they lead with integrity and consider within the energy of genuine storytelling. From day one, they understood my voice, my values, and the form of tales I need to inform — not only for the second, however for the long term. This partnership seems like the best dwelling to construct one thing lasting.”
Charlie continues to be represented by 3 Arts with managers Luke Maxwell and Jonathan Berry, and attorneys Ben Jenkins and Bianca Levin at Gang, Tyre, Ramer.
