Tommy Oliver is an American film producer, director, writer, cinematographer, photographer, financier, and entrepreneur.[1][2] He directed, produced, shot, and edited AFI Film Festival audience award winner Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss (2021), 40 Years a Prisoner, and 1982,[3][4] and recently produced four Sundance Film Festival 2023 films[5] 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 producedThe Perfect Guy (2015) and Sundance Film Festival and AFI Film Festival audience award winner Kinyarwanda,[6] and co-created and Executive Produced the documentary series Black Love.
Oliver is also known for his photography including his 70+ photos in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.[7][8]
Oliver is from Philadelphia, a Carnegie Mellon University alum, Founder and CEO of the production company Confluential Films,[9] 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]