Tommy Oliver & His Confluential Films banner with CAA ahead of Busy Sundance

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenated filmmaker, producer and financier Tommy Oliver has signed with CAA to represent Confluential Films, his award-winning black-owned and founded film, television and documentary production company and financier. CAA will also personally represent Oliver as a writer and director outside of Confluential.

Oliver is the founder and CEO, and he and his wife, Codie Elaine Oliver, co-chair the creator-centered company, which is dedicated to promoting inclusive, authentic and culturally specific projects and funding only the work of creators of color.

News of the CAA signing comes ahead of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where Oliver will present four projects. Among the feature films produced by Oliver and Confluential heading to the Utah festival is Erica Tremblays fantasy dance, with Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson and Shea Whigham; The Thembi Banks staged a drama Young. Game. Free., with Algee Smith, Sanaa Lathan and Mike Epps; and the documentary Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. Oliver’s fourth Sundance-linked title comes from filmmaker Qasim Basir To live and die and livewhich he produced.

The Olivers and Confluential Films are also known for their OWN documentaries black love, which was just nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Documentary category for its sixth and final season. Other credits include the AFI Audience Award winner Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss; the award-winning HBO documentary 40 years in exile, which had its world premiere at TIFF; the Screen Gems thriller The perfect guy, which opened at #1 in the US; and award-winning India 1982 (TIF), djinns (SXSW) and Kinyarwanda (Sun dance).

Along with Confluential, the Olivers are co-founders of the media company Black Love, Inc., which celebrates 360 degrees of Black Love, 365 days a year. Oliver serves as chairman and Codie as CEO.

Tommy Oliver is a member of AMPAS, the PGA, WGA, DGA and Television Academy, as well as a Sundance Producing Mentor, a PGA Producing Mentor, a Doc NYC Mentor, an Academy Gold Mentor and a recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Mellon Alumni Achievement Award, member of the Carnegie Mellon CFA Dean’s Council and board member of the Philadelphia Film Society. He was also named one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 most fascinating entrepreneurs of 2021.

In addition to his film and television work, Oliver is also a noted photographer whose protest photography is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. More than 50 of his photographs are part of the permanent collection.