Tommy Oliver (producer)
American film producer
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Tommy Oliver is an Emmy-winning and Sundance Film Festival-winning 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 in 2025 at TIFF. |
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]
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 (2017–2022; 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)
- Hamlet (2025; producer)