DOCUMENTARY
THE AI DOC OR: HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST
MY DEAD DAD’S PORNO TAPES
BROKEN ORCHESTRA
I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!!
GREAT PHOTO, LOVELY LIFE (Director of Animated Segments)
NARRATIVE
I THINK I LIKE IT HERE
HAMBURGER
GO TO HELL!
THE AI DOC OR: HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST
2026 ︎ Sundance Film Festival (World Premiere)
2026 ︎ SXSW Film Festival
2026 ︎ CPH:DOX
MY DEAD DAD’S PORNO TAPES
2019 ︎ Candian Screen Awards *best documentary short
2019 ︎ Cinema Eye Honors *best documentary short
2019 ︎ TIFF Canada’s Top Ten
2019 ︎ Webby Awards *best shortform documentary
2018 ︎ Sundance Film Festival
2018 ︎ SXSW Film Festival *grand jury prize, best documentary short
2018 ︎ Hot Docs International Film Festival
2018 ︎ Tribeca Film Festival
2018 ︎ Ottawa International Animation Festival *best Canadian animation, Vimeo award
2018 ︎ Interfilm Berline *most exceptional short
2018 ︎ Oak Cliff Film Festival *best documentary short
2018 ︎ Santa Fe Independent Film Festival *best experimental short
Also available via New York Times Op-Docs︎
BROKEN ORCHESTRA
2020︎ Sundance Film Festival
2020︎ SXSW Film Festival
2020︎ Florida Film Festival *best documentary short
2020︎ AFI Docs
2020︎ Indie Street Film Festival *special jury prize
2019 ︎ Philadelphia Film Festival *best short film
2019 ︎ Doc NYC
I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!!
2015︎ SXSW Film Festival
2015︎ Palm Beach International Film Festival *best short
2015︎ DOXA Documentary Film Festival *honourable mention
2015︎ Arizona International Film Festival *best documentary short
2015︎ National Screen Institute Blue Ant Media Award for Best Documentary
GREAT PHOTO, LOVELY LIFE (Director of Animated Segments)
2023 ︎ SXSW Film Festival (World Premiere)
2023 ︎ Lower East Side Film Festival (Best Feature Film)
2023 ︎ IDFA
2023 ︎ Calgary International Film Festival
2023 ︎ Sheffield DocFest
NARRATIVE
I THINK I LIKE IT HERE
2021 ︎ Christie Pits Film Festival
2023︎ West Chester International Short Film Festival
2023︎ Arizona International Film Festival
2023︎ West Chester International Short Film Festival
2023︎ Arizona International Film Festival
Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council
Supported by Toronto Outdoor Picture Show in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Christie Pits Film Festival
HAMBURGER
GO TO HELL!
2017︎ Forest City Film Festival
2017︎ The Valley Film Festival
2017︎ Durham Regional International Film Festival
2017︎ Videodrunk Film Festival
GOOGLE “SLOGANS FOR THE CLASS OF 2030”
In collaboration with Douglas Coupland.
PLEDGE X PINTEREST “THE TRENDIEST APARTMENT”
Full twelve-hour live stream ︎
VANS “RANDOMIZER SWITCH”
JENNAH BARRY “VENUS IN HEAT”
KEITA JUMA “BELLY”
HARRISON “AKIRA”
Supported by Koyama Provides, Fit Via Vi, and Field of Vision
THE BRAIN IN YOUR HEAD ︎ NARRATIVE FEATURE
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
Artist is Residence, Fall 2022 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild *supported by a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
MEMORIES OF FEELING BAD ︎ DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Supported by the Toronto Arts Council
Creative materials available upon request ︎
‘The AI Doc’ From ‘Navalny’ Director Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell Lands 2026 Release︎ The Hollywood Reporter ︎ Ryan Gajewski
SELECTED PRESS
How Our Oscar Contender Came to Be ︎ The New York Times ︎ Lyndsay Crouse
The Atlantic Selects: My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes ︎ The Atlantic ︎ Emily Buder
Our Very Personal Picks for the Best Movies, Music, Theatre, and Art of 2018 ︎ CBC ︎ March Mercanti
On Taking Your Time and Writing Yourself Into the Story ︎ Video Consortium ︎ Meghan McDonough
Short Films in Focus: My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes ︎ RogerEbert.com ︎ Collin Souter
Behind the Music: Talking to Broken Orchestra’s Charlie Tyrell & Julie Baldassi ︎ Topic ︎ Anna Holmes
Short Docs, Big Oscar Hopes: “A Night at the Garden,” “My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes” and “Los Comandos” ︎ Salon ︎ Gary M. Kramer
ShortList 2020: How Charlie Tyrell Made Beautiful Music Out of Busted Instruments in ‘Broken Orchestra’ ︎ The Wrap ︎ Steve Pond
A Portrait of A Lost Parent ︎ The Hamilton Spectator ︎ Emma Reilly
My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes: Review ︎ Short of the Week ︎ Georg Csarmann
In Brief: My Dead Dad’s and New Romantic win at SXSW ︎ Playback ︎ Lauren Malyk
Charlie Tyrell Tries to Understand His Emotionally Distant Father in Stop-Motion Doc ‘My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes’ ︎ Director’s Notes ︎ MarBelle
Broken Instruments Echo the Soul of a City ︎ Broad Street Review ︎ Linda Holt
Once-Broken Instruments Now Making Beautiful Music in Philly Schools ︎ Nonprofit Quarterly ︎ Eileen Cunniffe
Sundance 2020: Message Marries Form in Broken Orchetra, a Whimsically Clever Short Doc for the Ages ︎ Film Companion ︎ Rahul Desai
Charlie Tyrell Finds Art and Creativity with Broken Orchestra ︎ Behind the Lens ︎ Debbie Elias
Broken Orchestra Sings the Body Electric ︎ HorrorBuzz ︎ Miranda Riddle
Broken Orchestra ︎ Film Threat ︎ Alan Ng
A Roundup of Web Documentaries of Debbie Harry, Climate Denial, and More ︎ Hyperallergic ︎ Dan Schindel
Animation in Documentary: A Beautiful Paradox ︎ 25 Years Later ︎ J Paul Johnson
I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!!: Review ︎ Short of the Week ︎ Ivan Kander
I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! - Charlie Tyrell’s Short Doc Chronical’s Reid Fleming’s Journey into Development Hell ︎ Broken Frontier ︎ Jason Wilkins
Raindance Film Festival: I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! ︎ Loose Lips ︎ Joanna Orland