Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

Moving culture through bold storytelling.

Confluential Films is an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded, film, television, and documentary production company and financier. We are creator-driven, hyper-collaborative, and grounded in authenticity.

We love our partners!

OUR BRANDS

Founded by Tommy Oliver, Confluential develops, produces, and finances across film, TV, audio, documentaries, and docuseries. We make projects at the confluence of art, entertainment, business, and cultural specificity.

BLACK LOVE is the premier Black-owned partner for celebrating 360 degrees of Black love across Television, FAST, Podcasts, Social Media, and Experiential. Black Love was founded by Tommy & Codie Elaine Oliver.

A genre label dedicated to bold, elevated, culturally specific horror films from creators of color.

Confluential Productions provides pre-production, production, post-production, equipment, and sound stage services for motion pictures, television, and digital content.

Upcoming Projects

goons

Director: Gerard McMurray

Writers: K Johnson, Gerard McMurray

Cast: Chloe Bailey, Michael Rainey Jr.

When a crew breaks into a marijuana greenhouse on a Louisiana farm, a simple heist to grab the green turns into bloody mayhem.


HAMLET

Hamlet returns home after a long absence when his father, a powerful Indian businessman at the heart of London’s nouveau riche, dies suddenly. Hamlet soon starts to see visions of his dead father, who claims his brother Claudius murdered him - and urges Hamlet to take revenge.

Director: Aneil Karia

Writers: Michael Leslie

Author: William Shakespeare

Cast: Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn


Die Like A MaN

Set in the heart of a rapidly gentrifying west Los Angeles neighborhood still reeling from decades of guns and gang violence, a working-class single mom desperately tries to wean her 17-year-old son Freddy away from a veteran gangster who has become a father figure to him.

Director: Eric Nazarian

Writer: Eric Nazarian

Cast: Cory Hardrict, Mariel Molino, Frankie Loyal, Miguel Angel Garcia

 

TV & Film

 
 
 

FANCY DANCE

Since her sister's disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece, Roki, by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow.

TRAILER MOVIE

 

YOUNG. WILD. FREE.

A teenager struggling to provide for his younger siblings in Compton finds his life turned upside down when he's held at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.

TRAILER MOVIE

GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT

A look at the life of poet Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

TRAILER MOVIE

the perfect find

Based on New York Times best-selling author Tia Williams' debut novel, this romantic dramedy revolves around an accomplished forty-year-old fashion magazine editor who falls in love with the one person she shouldn't.

TRAILER MOVIE

Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss

An intimate look into the life and extensive career of the late hip-hop star Jarad Anthony Higgins, known professionally as Juice WRLD. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary Feature at the 2021 AFI Fest.

TRAILER MOVIE

40 Years A Prisoner

Philadelphia native Tommy Oliver follows the efforts of Mike Africa Jr. to exonerate his parents, both incarcerated members of the revolutionary group MOVE.

TRAILER MOVIE

 
 
 

The Perfect Guy

After a painful breakup, successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) jumps into a passionate relationship with a charming stranger (Michael Ealy). When her ex-boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) resurfaces, she has to figure out who she should trust and who she should fear.

TRAILER MOVIE

 

Black Love

A docuseries highlighting love stories from the Black community that seeks to uncover the secrets to making a marriage last. Features stories from both famous and everyday couples who each offer their own unique take on love.

TRAILER SERIES

 
 
 

1982

Inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, this film tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted mother.

TRAILER MOVIE

 
 
 
 

Kinyarwanda

A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos, a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family, and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

TRAILER MOVIE

 
 
 
 
 
 

Jinn

Summer is a 17-year-old carefree Black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity. Winner of the Special Jury Award for writing at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival.

TRAILER MOVIE

 

AUDIO

In 1985, at the height of the Black Power era, police dropped a bomb in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Their target? A family of Black radicals known as ‘MOVE,’ who found themselves ensnared in a city — and nation’s — domestic war on Black Liberation. Over seven episodes, host Matthew Amha investigates the events that culminated in the MOVE bombing, and the long afterlife of a forgotten American tragedy.

The Africas VS. America

FOUNDER

Tommy Oliver

Founder, CEO & Co-Chair

Tommy is an award-winning writer, director, producer, editor, photographer, and cinematographer. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, he is also a member of AMPAS, the DGA, the PGA, the WGA, and the Television Academy, and sits on the boards of the Philadelphia Film Society and The Dean’s Council at CMU.

Team

Allayah Beamon

Executive Assistant to CEO & CCO

Ayo Awoyemi

Assistant Director of Photography and Equipment Manager

Azella PerRyman

Chief Operating Officer

Codie Elaine Oliver

Partner & Co-Chair

Colt Hansen

Head of Post-Production

Danny Watkins

Controller

Assistant Editor

Guy Fisher III

Joe KehoE

Editor

Kay Dillard

Film Coordinator

Keith Gionet

VP, Documentaries

SVP, Film & Television

Liliane Bedford

Nick Daue

Post-Production Coordinator

Patrick Stapleton

VP, Physical Production

Sydney Jennings

Coordinator

Taylor Hamilton

Senior Vice President

Troi Zee

Film Coordinator

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