# The Film Collaborative

The Film Collaborative (TFC) is an American non-profit organization. Based in Los Angeles, The Film Collaborative services 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. TFC educates filmmakers about marketing and distribution options with the objective to eliminate unnecessary middlemen and break away from the restrictive contract terms that are prevalent in the film industry so that creators, rather than corporations, may profit from their own work. An ardent advocate of new media/digital distribution, TFC encourages filmmakers to use the global reach of the internet for digital marketing and forging an ongoing relationship with their audiences.

## 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 | |
| Midnight Traveler | 2019 | Hassan Fazili | Sundance | World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for No Borders (Sundance), Special Mention, Panorama Jury Prize (Berlinale), Second Place, Panorama Audience Award (Berlinale), Special Mention, Peace Prize (Berlinale), Best International Feature (Doc Edge New Zealand), Best of Fest (Doc Edge New Zealand) | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | Oscilloscope |
| Mr. Toilet | 2019 | Lily Zepeda | Hot Docs | Student Choice Awards (Hot Docs) | Festivals | Documentary | Journeyman |
| Our Time Machine | 2019 | Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang | Tribeca | Best Cinematography—Documentary (Tribeca), Grand Jury Award—International Documentary Feature (Los Angeles Asian Pacific), Best Documentary (CAAMFest), Best International Director: S. Leo Chiang & Yang Sun (Doc Edge New Zealand), All In The Family (Doc Edge New Zealand), Jury Award for Best Documentary (Indie Street), Jury Award for Best Documentary (Pordenone Docs Fest) | Festivals | Documentary | Passion River |
| The River and the Wall | 2019 | Ben Masters | SXSW | | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | Gravitas |
| Test Pattern | 2019 | Shatara Michelle Ford | | Best Female Lead Nominee, Best First Feature Nominee, Best First Screenplay Nominee (Film Independent Spirit Awards) | Fiscal Sponsorship | Narrative | Film Movement |
| Unsettled | 2019 | Tom Shepard | SFFILM | Audience Award for Documentary Feature (TLVFest), Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary (Outfest), Award of Excellence Special Mention: Documentary Feature, Award of Merit Special Mention: Cinematography, and Award of Excellence: LGBT (Impact Doc Awards) | Festivals | Documentary | |
| Vision Portraits | 2019 | Rodney Evans | SXSW | Outstanding Documentary Jury Award (Frameline43) | Festivals | Documentary | |
| Women, War & Peace II | 2019 | Eimhear O'Neill, Gini Reticker, Geeta Gandbhir, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | PBS Series | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | PBS |
| Ahead of the Curve | 2020 | Jen Rainin | Frameline, Outfest | Audience Award—Best Documentary (aGLIFF) | Festivals, Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | Wolfe |
| At the Ready | 2020 | Maisie Crow | Sundance | | Festivals | Documentary | Gravitas |
| Breaking Fast | 2020 | Mike Mosallam | Cinequest | | Festivals | Narrative | Vertical |
| Cicada | 2020 | Matthew Fifer | BFI London | | Festivals | Narrative | Strand |
| Cured | 2020 | Bennett Singer, Patrick Sammon | Outfest | AT&T Audience Award: Best Documentary (Frameline44), Audience Award for Documentary Feature (Newfest) | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | |
| Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen | 2020 | Sam Feder | Sundance | | Festivals | Documentary | Netflix |
| First Vote | 2020 | Yi Chen | | | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | C35 Films |
| Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections | 2020 | Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels, Sarah Teale | HBO Max Original | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | HBO |
| Landfall | 2020 | Cecilia Aldarondo | Tribeca | Nominee, Truer Than Fiction, Film Independent Spirit Awards 2021 | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | |
| Missing in Brooks County | 2020 | Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss | Hot Springs Documentary | | Festivals | Documentary | Giant Pictures |
| Mogul Mowgli | 2020 | Bassam Tariq | Berlin | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Narrative | Strand |
| My Darling Vivian | 2020 | Matt Riddlehoover | SXSW | | Festivals | Documentary | Giant Pictures |
| No Ordinary Man | 2020 | Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Toronto Int'l | Best Canadian Film (Inside Out Toronto) | Festivals | Documentary | Oscilloscope |
| On The Record | 2020 | Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering | Sundance | | Festivals | Documentary | HBO |
| P.S. Burn This Letter Please | 2020 | Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera | Tribeca | | Festivals | Documentary | Discovery+ |
| Red Heaven | 2020 | Lauren DeFilippo, Katherine Gorringe | SXSW | | Festivals | Documentary | Utopia |
| Rock Camp: The Movie | 2020 | Doug Blush | Cleveland Int'l | | Festivals | Documentary | Gravitas |
| The Dilemma of Desire | 2020 | Maria Finitzo | SXSW | | Festivals | Documentary | Utopia |
| The Magnitude of All Things | 2020 | Jennifer Abbott | Vancouver International, IDFA | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | National Film Board of Canada |
| The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Unnecessary Sequel | 2020 | Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott | Toronto Int'l | | Festivals | Documentary | |
| The Weight of Gold | 2020 | Brett Rapkin | HBO Max Original | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | HBO |
| Through the Night | 2020 | Loira Limbal | Tribeca | | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | PBS |
| Welcome to Chechnya | 2020 | David France | Sundance | U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Tyler H. Walk (Sundance), Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary (Berlin), Teddy ACTIVIST Award (Berlin) | Festivals | Documentary | HBO |
| White Noise | 2020 | Daniel Lombroso | | | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | The Atlantic |
| Women in Blue | 2020 | Deirdre Fishel | Tribeca | | Festivals, Community Conversations | Documentary | |
| 18 1⁄2 | 2021 | Dan Mirvish | Woodstock | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Narrative | |
| 2 Timers | 2021 | Tim Aslin, Shane Cibella | Pasadena Int'l | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Narrative | |
| Bitterbrush | 2021 | Emelie Mahdavian | Teluride | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | Magnolia Pictures |
| BOULEVARD! A Hollywood Story | 2021 | Jeffrey Schwarz | Outfest | | Festivals, Sales | Documentary | Passion River |
| Building a Bridge | 2021 | Evan Mascagni, Shannon Post | Tribeca | | Festivals | Documentary | AMC Plus Documentaries |
| End of the Line | 2021 | Shannon Kring | Sundance | | Festivals | Documentary | |
| Firebird | 2021 | Peeter Rebane | BFI Flare | | Festivals | Narrative | Lionsgate |
| Gemmel & Tim | 2021 | Michiel Thomas | Outfest | | Festivals, Sales | Documentary | Passion River |
| It's Not a Burden | 2021 | Michelle Boyaner | | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | Gravitas |
| Like a Rolling Stone | 2021 | Suzanne Kai | Tribeca | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | Netflix |
| Mission Joy | 2021 | Louie Psihoyos, Peggy Callahan | Tribeca | | Festivals, Global Impact VOD | Documentary | Giant Pictures |
| My Name Is Lopez | 2021 | P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes | AmDocs, Palm Springs Int'l | | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | Cinedigm |
| No Straight Lines | 2021 | Vivian Kleiman | Tribeca | | Festivals | Documentary | |
| Not Going Quietly | 2021 | Nicholas Bruckman | SXSW | Audience Award Winner—Documentary Feature (SXSW); Special Jury Recognition—Humanity in Social Action, Documentary Feature (SXSW) | Festivals | Documentary | Greenwich Entertainment |
| Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break | 2021 | Nick Gillespie | SXSW | Final Draft Screenwriters Award (SXSW) | Festivals | Narrative | |
| See You Then | 2021 | Mari Walker | SXSW | | Festivals | Narrative | Breaking Glass Pictures |
| Son of Monarchs | 2021 | Alexis Gambis | Sundance | Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize (Sundance), Grand Jury Prize / New American Competition (Seattle International) | Festivals | Narrative | |
| Storm Lake | 2021 | Jerry Risius, Beth Levison | Full Frame | | Festivals | Documentary | PBS |
| Swan Song | 2021 | Todd Stephens | SXSW | | Festivals | Narrative | Magnolia |
| The Story of Looking | 2021 | Mark Cousins | Sheffield DOC/FEST | Closing Night (Sheffield) | Fiscal Sponsorship | Documentary | |
| Tigre Gente | 2021 | Elizabeth Unger | Tribeca | | Festivals | Documentary | |
| Try Harder | 2021 | Debbie Lum | Sundance | | Festivals | Documentary | Greenwich Entertainment |

## Educational Tools

In 2011, TFC launched a free suite of online resources for filmmakers called Distripedia and have been expanding it ever since. Distripedia includes ResourcePlace, the Digital Distribution Guide, TFC Case Studies, the TFC Blog, [Distributor ReportCard] and the :20 in '22 interview series. The Digital Distribution Guide is a platform-focused listing of digital streaming platforms across the globe. It also provides links to platform-specific news items dating back to 2010. Analytical film distribution TFC Case Studies, which are released on an ongoing basis, highlight the distribution journeys of a variety of films—those of different genres, subject matters, levels of success, etc.—and cover topics ranging from sales agents, distributors, and self-distribution to reaching an online audience, creating impact campaigns with calls-to-action, and being pigeonholed in one's film niche. ResourcePlace provides a wide array of online services on topics that are essential to today's filmmaker. The Film Collaborate maintains this list of vendors and services via recommendations from filmmakers and other industry folks and/or our own first-hand experience with them. The TFC Blog, written by the TFC staff and a select industry guest writers, focuses on what's new in distribution and the digital distribution world. Topics include educational distribution, blockchain, digital strategy, fair use, and more. Distributor ReportCard, which will ultimately include at least 40 forthcoming distributors, is a "Zagat"-like guide anonymously collates filmmakers' real experiences with distribution companies, in their own words. It gives filmmakers the opportunity to learn from their fellow filmmakers, allowing them to understand and avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional distribution, while simultaneously helping them choose the best fit for their film. The short video interview series, entitled :20 in '22, features members of the TFC team as they engage in informal 20-minute chats with filmmakers, programmers, distributors, exhibitors, distribution experts, and other industry professionals on pressing film-distribution-related topics in these tumultuous and unpredictable times.

## Consultation Services

TFC offers distribution and marketing education to independent filmmakers seeking to reach traditionally underserved audiences. Via its membership and digital distribution programs, TFC guides filmmakers through the distribution process and helps them develop a custom strategy suitable for their film.

## Fiscal Sponsorship

In 2012, TFC launched a Fiscal Sponsorship program, enabling filmmakers to contract with TFC to extend tax-exempt status to their specific projects, rather than attempting to secure tax-exempt status on their own.

## Collaborative Releasing

In late 2010, The Film Collaborative spearheaded the theatrical release of Javier Fuentes-León's ghostly love story Undertow (Contracorriente), which was Peru's Official Selection to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film that year. In 2012, they released Jonathan Lisecki's alternative parenting romantic comedy-drama Gayby and Aurora Guerrero's coming-of-age film Mosquita y Mari.
In 2014, The Film Collaborative's theatrical releases included Switzerland's Official Selection to the 2015 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, The Circle (Der Kreis), Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, Catherine Gund's documentary about the life and work of choreographer and action architect Elizabeth Streb, LGBT film historiographer-director Jeffrey Schwarz's I am Divine, about the international drag superstar and John Waters' leading lady Divine, Darius Clark Monroe's Evolution of a Criminal and The Hand that Feeds.
In 2015, The Film Collaborative's theatrical releases included Jeffrey Schwarz's Tab Hunter Confidential, Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's (T)ERROR, which won the Special Jury Award for Breakout First Feature at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. TFC also released Parvez Sharma's A Sinner in Mecca, Song from the Forest, and 1971, which focuses on a break-in of an FBI office that occurred that year in Media, Pennsylvania to steal over 1000 classified documents.
Requiem for the American Dream, featuring famed historian Noam Chomsky, began its release on January 29, 2016. TFC released Nanfu Wang's documentary about a Chinese activist, entitled Hooligan Sparrow, on July 22, 2016. The Film Collaborative, along with Emerging Pictures, will handle theatrical distribution for Landfill Harmonic (2016). The film will open theatrically in North America on September 9, 2016. TFC partnered with Gravitas Ventures to release For the Love of Spock theatrically on Sept. 9, 2016.
In November 2016, The Film Collaborative launched Collaborative Releasing as a new distribution initiative that combines film sales and licensing with a hybrid release plan. TFC also rebranded its Theatrical Releasing services under the Collaborative Releasing umbrella.
Collaborative Releasing handled the 2018 North American theatrical release of The Song of Sway Lake, directed by Ari Gold.

## Sales and Business Negotiation

In 2011, The Film Collaborative helped negotiate a deal for Andrew Haigh's Weekend. In 2012, TFC launched a new foreign sales initiative for LGBT titles with Peccadillo (UK), Outplay (France), Pro-Fun (Germany), ABC/Cinemien (Benelux) to share resources and launch films simultaneously in multiple territories when possible to maximize awareness and limit piracy. In 2016, The Film Collaborative was a key player in orchestrating a splits right deal for the film Landfill Harmonic involving Vimeo (Digital), HBO Latino (Television), Tugg (Educational) and FilmRise (DVD).

## Recent Press

Filmmaker Magazine, November 4, 2022 "We Had Made This Film Against All Odds... Why Not Take On This Last Chapter of the Film's Journey Ourselves?": You Resemble Me Producer Elizabeth Woodward on Embracing Self-Distribution
Screen Daily, November 23, 2016 At the Film Bazaar in Goa, India, Orly Ravid from The Film Collaborative advises filmmakers to use grassroots outreach and social media marketing.
Variety, November 14, 2016 The Film Collaborative Launches Collaborative Releasing