Charles Officer, known as one of the leaders in Black Canadian independent film, has died. He was 49 and succumbed at his home in Toronto Friday from complications from a heart attack.
Officer had been battling what’s been described as a lengthy illness that was not specified. He had a lung transplant in December 2022.
Officer’s best-known film was the 2009 indie Nurse.Fighter.Boy, an urban love story. He also directed four episodes of The Porter, a CBC/BET+ drama about railway workers from both sides of the Canadian-U.S.
border. He was a cofounder of the Black Screen Office in Canada, and launched and ran Canesugar Filmworks with longtime business partner Jake Yanowski.
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