Carlos Burnell Miller
Film · Fiction · Photography
I make stories about people searching for beauty, meaning, and grace inside imperfect worlds.
Carlos Burnell Miller is a filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator based in South Florida.
Film · 2022
Between Sins
Official Selection · American Black Film Festival
After five years in prison, Coy comes home determined to stay clear of the people and circumstances that took his life apart. When an old friend turns up expecting things to resume where they stopped, the things Coy believed to be true begin to look like a lie.
Fiction · 2026
The Ringmaster
A Novel
A Florida architect haunted by dreams of a lion is forced toward the buried history beneath the life, marriage, and identity he has spent years constructing.
Current work
Young Paradise
Documentary / Docudrama · South Florida · 2026–27
Young people live on the margins of a place sold to the world as paradise, still carrying desire, beauty, and dreams of what their lives might become.
Youth doesn’t disappear simply because the world has decided you’ve been lost.
Photographs
Carlos Burnell Miller
Carlos Burnell Miller is a filmmaker, writer, photographer, and educator based in South Florida. His work examines people searching for beauty, meaning, and grace within imperfect worlds.
Miller studied filmmaking at New York University’s Graduate Film Program, where he was mentored by Spike Lee. His narrative film Between Sins was an Official Selection of the American Black Film Festival. He is the author of the novel The Ringmaster and teaches film directing at Palm Beach State College.
His current work includes Young Paradise, a documentary / docudrama set in South Florida.
