Charles Officer (October 28, 1975 – December 1, 2023) was a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player.

[8] Officer is the founder and creative director of the production company Canesugar Filmworks alongside his business partner Jake Yanowski.

Officer was a frequent collaborator of Canadian filmmaker and actress Ingrid Veninger, having worked on numerous projects with her, including in Urda/Bone, which screened at the New York Film Festival in 2003.

Archival footage, interviews and recreations are used to tell the story of what Jerome's university coach, Bill Bowerman, called "The greatest comeback in track and field history."

[24] The Skin We're In, Officer's documentary about Canadian journalist Desmond Cole, premiered on CBC Television in March 2017.

[29] The same year, Officer directed the CBC/BET television series The Porter[30] The show won 12 Canadian Screen Awards (CSA).

[6] The show is based on true historical events and presents stories of Black Canadian railway porters following the first World War.

[32][33] Following his death, he was posthumously named as the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Company 3 TFCA Luminary Award,[34] and the Toronto International Film Festival partnered with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to create a new award in Officer's memory, to be presented annually as part of the Canada's Top Ten announcements to a filmmaker for their body of work.