Tommy Oliver (producer)

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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 Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss (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, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. 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.

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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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References

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