Tommy Oliver (producer) explained

Tommy Oliver is an American film producer, director, writer, cinematographer, photographer, financier, entrepreneur, and CEO and Founder of Confluential Films,[1] [2] [3] He directed, produced, shot, and edited AFI Film Festival audience award winner (2021), 40 Years a Prisoner, and 1982,[4] [5] and produced four Sundance Film Festival 2023 films[6] including Young. Wild. Free., Fancy Dance, To Live and Die and Live (EP), and the Grand Jury Prize winner, . He also produced The Perfect Find (2023), The Perfect Guy (2015) and Sundance Film Festival and AFI Film Festival audience award winner Kinyarwanda,[7] and co-created and Executive Produced the documentary series Black Love.

Oliver is also known for his photography including his 70+ photos in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.[8] [9]

Oliver is from Philadelphia, a Carnegie Mellon University alum, and Founder and chairman of the media company Black Love, Inc.[10] which he founded with his wife, Codie Elaine Oliver.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] He is on the Board of the Philadelphia Film Society.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 25 August 2021 . Tommy Oliver's Confluential Films Adds Charlotte Koh as President & Prince Baggett as Head of Film .
  2. Web site: Sippell. Margeaux. 'Black Love' Producer on Diversity: 'You Can Talk About Those Things, or You Can Get the Hell Up'. 5 June 2019. TheWrap. 6 August 2020.
  3. Web site: Tangcay. Jazz. How Filmmaker Tommy Oliver Captured Hollywood's Massive Black Lives Matters Protest. 11 June 2020. Variety. 22 November 2020.
  4. Web site: Gonzalez . Umberto . 16 November 2020 . Mike Africa Jr Seeks to Free His Parents in '40 Years a Prisoner' Trailer (Exclusive Video) . 22 November 2020 . TheWrap.
  5. Web site: Macaulay . Scott . 12 September 2013 . Five Questions for 1982 Director Tommy Oliver . 6 August 2020 . Filmmaker.
  6. Web site: Tommy Oliver & His Confluential Films Banner Sign With CAA Ahead Of Busy Sundance . 2023-01-18 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230307185632/https://deadline.com/2023/01/tommy-oliver-confluential-films-sign-with-caa-ahead-of-busy-sundance-1235225900/ . 2023-03-07 . live .
  7. Web site: 5 July 2011. Award-Winning Sundance Film "Kinyarwanda" Will Receive a Theatrical Release Through AFFRM. 22 November 2020. IndieWire.
  8. Web site: Variety. 16 June 2020. How filmmaker Tommy Oliver captured Hollywood's massive Black Lives Matters protest. 6 August 2020. NBC News.
  9. Web site: NMAAHC Collections Search. 2021-11-16. National Museum of African American History and Culture. en.
  10. Web site: Codie Elaine Oliver, Co-Creator and Director of Black Love, Shares Why Ownership Must be the Goal for Creatives. Forbes.
  11. Web site: Roberson. Saybin. Executive Producers Codie and Tommy Oliver Talk 'Black Love'. 23 August 2019. Los Angeles Sentinel. 6 August 2020.
  12. Web site: Gray. Ellen. Philly filmmaker explores 'Black Love' on both sides of camera. 29 August 2017. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 6 August 2020.
  13. Web site: Tommy Oliver. Variety. 29 August 2013. 22 November 2020.
  14. Web site: 2018 Alumni Achievement Award Spotlight: Tommy Oliver. Carnegie Mellon University. 22 November 2020.
  15. Web site: Eichel. Molly. Philly's Tommy Oliver says 'The Perfect Guy' is not just a black movie. 11 September 2015. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 6 August 2020.
  16. Web site: 30th Philadelphia Film Festival. 2021-10-09. Philadelphia Film Society. en-US.

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