Tommy Oliver
Credits: Founder & CEO, Confluential Films
Award-winning multi-hyphenate filmmaker TOMMY OLIVER is also the Founder & CEO of Confluential Films, a production company and financier devoted to authentic, commercial, and culturally specific stories.
Oliver’s 2023 films included producing The Perfect Find (Netflix), starring Gabrielle Union & Keith Powers, Sundance 2023 narrative films Young. Wild. Free., starring Algee Smith, Sanaa Lathan, and Mike Epps, and Fancy Dance (Apple TV+), starring Lily Gladstone, as well as the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner and Oscar-shortlisted documentary, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO).
Oliver’s past projects include AFI Fest Audience Award winner Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss and the critically acclaimed HBO documentary 40 Years A Prisoner, both of which he directed, produced, shot, and edited; producing the Sony thriller The Perfect Guy (opened #1 in the US), producing the Sundance and AFI Fest Audience Award winner Kinyarwanda; creating and executive producing (along with his wife, Codie Elaine Oliver) the groundbreaking docuseries Black Love, and writing, directing, producing, and editing Lionsgate’s critically acclaimed indie film 1982.
Oliver is a member of AMPAS, the PGA, the WGA, the DGA, the Television Academy, a Sundance Producing mentor, a PGA producing mentor, a Doc NYC mentor, an Academy Gold mentor, a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Alumni Achievement Award, a member of Carnegie Mellon CFA Dean’s Council, a board member of The Philadelphia Film Society, and was named by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs.