Tommy Oliver (producer)

Tommy Oliver is an American film producer, director, writer, cinematographer, photographer, financier, and entrepreneur.^[1][2] He directed, produced, shot, and edited AFI Film Festival audience award winner Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss (2021), 40 Years a Prisoner, and 1982,^[3][4] and recently produced four Sundance Film Festival 2023 films^[5] 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 producedThe Perfect Guy (2015) and Sundance Film Festival and AFI Film Festival audience award winner Kinyarwanda,^[6] 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.^[7][8]

Oliver is from Philadelphia, a Carnegie Mellon University alum, Founder and CEO of the production company Confluential Films,^[9] 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]

Select filmography

• Kinyarwanda (2011; producer)
• 1982 (2013; writer, director, producer, and editor)
• The Perfect Guy (2015; producer)
• Halfway (2016; executive producer)
• Destined (2016; producer)
• Black Love (2017–present; creator and executive producer)
• 40 Years a Prisoner (2020; director, producer, cinematographer, and editor)
• Juice Wrld: Into the Abyss (2021; director, producer, cinematographer, and editor)
• Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023; producer)
• Fancy Dance (2023; producer)
• To Live and Die and Live (2023; executive producer)
• Young. Wild. Free. (2023; producer)
• The Perfect Find (2023; producer)

References

1. 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.
2. Tangcay, Jazz (11 June 2020). "How Filmmaker Tommy Oliver Captured Hollywood's Massive Black Lives Matters Protest". Variety. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
3. 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.
4. Macaulay, Scott (12 September 2013). "Five Questions for 1982 Director Tommy Oliver". Filmmaker. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
5. "Tommy Oliver & His Confluential Films Banner Sign With CAA Ahead Of Busy Sundance". Deadline Hollywood. 2023-01-18. from the original on 2023-03-07.
6. "Award-Winning Sundance Film "Kinyarwanda" Will Receive a Theatrical Release Through AFFRM". IndieWire. 5 July 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
7. Variety (16 June 2020). "How filmmaker Tommy Oliver captured Hollywood's massive Black Lives Matters protest". NBC News. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
8. "NMAAHC Collections Search". National Museum of African American History and Culture. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
9. "Tommy Oliver's Confluential Films Adds Charlotte Koh as President & Prince Baggett as Head of Film". 25 August 2021.
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.

External links

• Tommy Oliver at IMDb