The Film Collaborative (TFC) is an American non-profit organization. Based in Los Angeles, The Film Collaborative serves filmmakers worldwide by providing distribution guidance and support as well as theatrical, film festival and digital distribution of art house, independent and world cinema.
History Launched in 2010, The Film Collaborative is a service-oriented, educational organization aimed at encouraging and enabling independent filmmakers to forge their own brands and directly reach audiences with their work.
Festival Distribution In 2010, TFC did festival distribution for films such as Eyes Wide Open, The Owls, Florent, A Small Act, The Adults in the Room, How to Start Your Own Country, An African Election and Undertow.
TFC's 2011 slate included August, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, Facing Mirrors, Hit So Hard, The Invisible War, I Want Your Love, Leave It on the Floor, Mosquita y Mari, Revenge of the Electric Car, Shut Up Little Man!, Some Guy Who Kills People, Vito, Weekend, We Were Here and The Wise Kids.
TFC's 2012 slate included A Fierce Green Fire, Interior. Leather Bar., Jobriath A.D., The New Black, A River Changes Course, Gayby, A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951, Taking a Chance on God, Trans, United in Anger and Valley of Saints.
TFC's 2013 slate included I am Divine, Born This Way, G.B.F., Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, The Happy Sad, Kink, Pit Stop and Valentine Road.
TFC's 2014 slate included Appropriate Behavior, Born to Fly, Boy Meets Girl, Cesar's Last Fast, Five Star, The Immortalists, Kidnapped For Christ, Out in the Night, Regarding Susan Sontag, Song From the Forest, (T)ERROR, To Be Takei and The Year We Thought About Love.
TFC's 2015 slate included All About E, All Eyes and Ears, The Amina Profile, The Armor of Light, The Bad Kids, The Hunting Ground, I Promise You Anarchy, Landfill Harmonic, Naz & Maalik, The New Man, Out to Win, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, Racing Extinction, The Royal Road, Salero, Seed Money, Tab Hunter Confidential, Those People, Uncle Howard and While You Weren't Looking.
TFC's 2016 slate included AWOL, Boone, Cameraperson, Equal Means Equal, Forever Pure, Hooligan Sparrow, Hunky Dory, Icaros, Jewel's Catch One, The Last Laugh, Maya Angelou And Still I Rise, Out Run, A Song For You, Tower, Untouchable and Women Who Kill.
Slate Film Year Director World premiere Major awards Distribution / Services Genre Notes Hooligan Sparrow 2016 Nanfu Wang Sundance Best Social Impact Film, Documentary Feature (Greenwich International Film Festival), Spirit Award, Peabody Award Festivals, theatrical Documentary 195 Lewis 2017 Chanelle Aponte Pearson Rotterdam U.S. Grand Jury Prize—Narrative Special Mention Film (Outfest) Festivals Episodic After Louie 2017 Vincent Gagliostro BFI Flare Festivals Narrative All the Rage 2017 Michael Galinsky, David Beilinson, Suki Hawley DOC NYC Theatrical Documentary A Bad Idea Gone Wrong 2017 Jason Headley Festivals Narrative Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall 2017 Katherine Fairfax Wright SXSW Festivals Documentary Bending the Arc 2017 Kief Davidson, Pedro Kos Sundance Best Documentary (Greenwich) Festivals Documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson 2017 David France Tribeca 2017 Programming Award for Freedom—David France and Victoria Cruz (Outfest) Festivals Documentary ELIÁN 2017 Tim Golden, Ross McDonnell Tribeca Festivals, Theatrical Documentary Gravitas The Fabulous Allan Carr 2017 Jeffrey Schwarz Seattle Festivals Documentary The Feels 2017 Jenée LaMarque Seattle International U.S. Narrative Jury Prize, Best Actress—Ever Mainard (Outfest) Festivals Narrative A Good American 2017 Friedrich Moser CPH:DOX / DOC NYC Theatrical Documentary I Dream in Another Language 2017 Ernesto Contreras Sundance Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic (Sundance) Festivals Documentary FilmRise Legion of Brothers 2017 Greg Barker Sundance Theatrical Documentary Gravitas The Light of the Moon 2017 Jessica M. Thompson SXSW Audience Award, Narrative Feature (SXSW) Festivals, theatrical Narrative More Art Upstairs 2017 Jody Hassett Sanchez Hot Docs Sales Documentary Motherland 2017 Ramona S. Diaz Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Commanding Vision (Sundance) Festivals, theatrical Documentary No Man's Land 2017 David Byars Tribeca Festivals Documentary The Opposition 2017 Hollie Fifer IDFA Festivals Documentary Pornocracy 2017 Ovidie SXSW Festivals Documentary Quest 2017 Jonathan Olshefski Sundance Grand Jury Prizes (Full Frame, RiverRun, Dallas, Ashland), Human Rights Award (Full Frame), Honorable Mention (Cleveland) Festivals Documentary The Reagan Show 2017 Pacho Velez, Sierra Pettengill Tribeca Theatrical Documentary Gravitas Romeo Is Bleeding 2017 Jason Zeldes San Francisco International Winner of over 20 Film Festival Awards Theatrical Documentary Score 2017 Matt Schrader Hamptons International The Music Movies Award (Cleveland International) Theatrical Documentary Gravitas Signature Move 2017 Jennifer Reeder SXSW U.S. Grand Jury Prize—Best Narrative Feature Film: Jennifer Reeder (Outfest) Festivals Narrative Small Talk 2017 Hui-chen Huang Golden Horse Film Festival, Berlinale Teddy Award (Berlinale) Festivals Documentary A Suitable Girl 2017 Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra Tribeca Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award (Tribeca) Festivals Documentary Supergirl 2017 Jessie Auritt Hamptons International Festivals Documentary FilmRise Sylvio 2017 Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley SXSW Sales Narrative True Conviction 2017 Jamie Meltzer Tribeca Special Jury Mention, Best Documentary Feature (Tribeca) Festivals Documentary Unrest 2017 Jennifer Brea Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Editing (Sundance), Audience Award (RiverRun International), Grand Jury Prize (Nashville) Festivals Documentary The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin 2017 Jennifer M. Kroot SXSW Audience Award Winner, Documentary Spotlight (SXSW), Best Documentary Jury Winner (Outshine Miami), Audience Award (Nashville) Festivals, Theatrical, Sales, Digital Documentary What Lies Upstream 2017 Cullen Hoback Slamdance Festivals Documentary Women Who Kill 2017, 2016 Ingrid Jungermann Tribeca Best Screenplay (Outfest) Theatrical, Festivals Narrative 1985 2018 Yen Tan SXSW Festivals Narrative 306 Hollywood 2018 Elan + Jonathan Bogarín Sundance Festivals Documentary 93Queen 2018 Paula Eiselt HotDocs Festivals Documentary Angels Are Made of Light 2018 James Longley TIFF Festivals Narrative Cherry Grove Stories 2018 Michael Fisher Festivals Narrative Crime + Punishment 2018 Stephen Maing Sundance U.S. Doc Special Jury Award For Social Impact Filmmaking (Sundance) Festivals Documentary The Devil We Know 2018 Stephanie Soechtig, Jeremy Seifert Sundance Best Call2Action Film (Boulder International) Festivals Documentary Do You Trust This Computer? 2018 Chris_Paine IREN Audience Award Festivals Documentary Dykes, Camera, Action! 2018 Caroline Berler Emerging Talent Award: Caroline Berler (Outfest) Festivals Documentary Edie Windsor: To A More Perfect Union 2018 Donna Zaccaro Festivals Documentary Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life 2018 Jeff Kaufman Tribeca Audience Award—Best Documentary (Out CT), Jury Award—Best Documentary (Out CT), Festival Award for Best Documentary (FilmOut San Diego), Programming Award: Freedom Award—Terrence McNally (Film Out San Diego) Festivals, Sales Documentary Freelancers Anonymous 2018 Sonia Sebastian Festivals Narrative Ideal Home 2018 Andrew Fleming Festivals Narrative Instructions on Parting 2018 Amy Jenkins Best Documentary (Athens International Film + Video) Festivals Documentary The Judge 2018 Erika Cohn Toronto Audience Award (CUFF.Docs) Festivals Documentary Jules of Light and Dark 2018 Daniel Laabs Festivals Narrative Living Proof 2018 Matt Embry Toronto Audience Award, Best Alberta Feature (Calgary) Festivals Documentary Making Montgomery Clift 2018 Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon Festivals, Sales Documentary Man Made 2018 T Cooper Best Documentary Jury Award (Atlanta), Best Documentary Feature (Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival), Best Documentary Feature Audience Award and Fox Inclusion Feature Award (Outfest) Festivals Documentary Mapplethorpe 2018 Ondi Timoner Tribeca Festivals Narrative A Moment in the Reeds 2017 Mikko Makela BFI London Festivals, Digital, Sales Narrative Punk Voyage 2018 Jukka Kärkkäinen, J-P Passi Festivals, Digital Documentary Rx: Early Detection 2018 Cathy Chermol Schrijver Sundance Festivals Documentary Shakedown 2018 Leilah Weinraub Berlin Festivals Documentary the T 2018 Deven Casey, Bea Cordelia, Daniel Kyri Festivals Episodic TransMilitary 2018 Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson SXSW Audience Award, Documentary Competition (SXSW); Grand Jury Award (Florida Film Festival); Special Mention (Outfest) Festivals Documentary Tucked 2018 Jamie Patterson Best Narrative Audience Award and International Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize (Outfest) Festivals Documentary White Rabbit 2018 Daryl Wein Sundance Festivals Narrative Wild Nights with Emily 2018 Madeleine Olnek SXSW Guggenheim Fellowship, U.S. In Progress Award (Champs- Elysees), Best Narrative Film and Best Screenplay (Q Films Long Beach), Audience Award Best Film (Shout Alabama), Jury Humanitarian Award (Honolulu Rainbow), Best Narrative Film (Out Here Now Kansas City), Best Narrative Feature (Tied- Tampa Bay International GLFF), Festival Favorite (Palm Springs LGBT), Best Actress- Molly Shannon- Jury Award (Out on film, Atlanta LGBT FF), Best Director (Runner-up)- Madeleine Olnek- Jury Award (Out on film, Atlanta LGBT FF) Festivals, Sales Narrative A Girl from Mogadishu 2019 Mary McGuckian Edinburgh Int'l Festivals, Global Impact VOD Narrative Showtime Almost Love 2019 Mike Doyle Inside Out Toronto, Frameline, Outfest Festivals Narrative Vertical Entertainment / Netflix Always in Season 2019 Jacqueline Olive Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency (Sundance) Festivals, Community Conversations Documentary Artifishal 2019 Josh "Bones" Murphy Tribeca Festivals Documentary Buoyancy 2019 Rodd Rathjen Berlin Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Panorama (Berlin) Fiscal Sponsorship Narrative Kino Lorber Carlos Almaraz 2019 Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya Palm Springs International Fiscal Sponsorship Documentary Netflix Changing the Game 2019 Michael Barnett Tribeca AT&T Audience Award—Best Documentary (Frameline43) Festivals, Community Conversations Documentary Hulu Drag Kids 2019 Megan Wennberg Festivals Documentary Gravitas The Euphoria of Being 2019 Réka Szabó Locarno Grand Prize of the Critics' Week (Locarno), Human Rights Award (Sarajevo) Festivals Documentary The Garden Left Behind 2019 Flavio Alves SXSW Audience Award—Visions (SXSW), Audience Award—Narrative Feature (Wicked Queer Boston), Audience Award for Best Feature Narrative (Translations), Best of the Fest (Bentonville), Best Drama Feature Jury Award (North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival), Best Supporting Performance—Miriam Cruz, Best Lead Performance—Carlie Guevara, and Best Director—Flavio Alves (North Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), Grand Jury Prize—New Director's Feature (Nashville), Audience Award (Louisville LGBT), Richard Propes' Social Impact Award for Best Narrative Film (Heartland), QueerScope Prize (Hamburg LGBT) Festivals Narrative Dark Star Gay Chorus Deep South 2019 David Charles Rodrigues Tribeca GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary, Audience Award—Documentary (Tribeca), Audience Award for Best Documentary and Best Music Documentary (NorthwestFest), Audience Award—Best Documentary (Pink Apple Zurich) Festivals Documentary MTV Films He Dreams of Giants 2019 Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe AFI FEST, DOC NYC Best UK Feature (Raindance) Festivals Documentary