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    You can now watch the Video Replays of TFC Distribution Days, a two-day virtual conference that was presented in collaboration with Sundance Institute and Film Independent and sponsored by the Golden Globe Foundation.

  • Distribution Advocates Podcast Episodes 1 and 6 are now LIVE!!

    Episode 1 features TFC Founder and Co-ED Orly Ravid, where she, and others, demystify the role of sales agents, and explore one filmmaker’s journey in finding distribution without one! Listen below or click here for more info and the full transcript. Episode 6 also features Orly Ravid, where she, and others, examine current system of distribution, and what can happen to filmmakers when a distribution company fails. Listen below or click here for more info and the full transcript.

TFC congratulates our clients with projects that are contenders for top awards this year!

IDA Documentary Awards Shortlist for Best Feature

(Ceremony to take place on Dec. 5, 2024)

MTV Documentary Films’ BLACK BOX DIARIES

MEDIHA

QUEENDOM

Please go here for more information.

Critics Choice Documentary Awards Winner

(Ceremony took place on Nov. 10, 2024)

DAUGHTERS — Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s)

(Also Nominated: MTV Documentary Films’ BLACK BOX DIARIES — Best True Crime Documentary; MTV Documentary Films’ I AM READY, WARDEN — Best Short Documentary)
Please go here for more information.

DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 List, Class of 2024

Emmy News & Documentary Winner

(Ceremony took place on Sept. 26, 2024)

FREE CHOL SOO LEE — Outstanding Historical Documentary

(Also Nominated: MOURNING IN LOD — Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary • A SONG FILM BY KISHI BASHI: “OMOIYARI” — Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary • LAST SONG FROM KABUL / BIRTHING A NATION — Outstanding Short Documentary • FREE CHOL SOO LEE / HIDDEN LETTERS / MOURNING IN LOD — Best Documentary • FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Teaser on Independent Lens) — Outstanding Pomotional Annoucement: Documentary

Please go here for more information.

Peabody Award Winners

(Ceremony took place on June 9, 2024)

ALL THAT BREATHES — Documentary

WHILE WE WATCHED — Documentary

(Also Nominated: THE ETERNAL MEMORYETERNAL SPRINGHIDDEN LETTERS)

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations

(Ceremony took place on Feb. 25, 2024)

THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY — John Cassavetes Award

JOONAM — director Sierra Urich, Truer Than Fiction Award

Oscar® Nominations

(Ceremony took place on Mar. 10, 2024)

MTV Documentary Films’ THE ETERNAL MEMORY — Documentary Feature Film

MTV Documentary Films’ LAST SONG FROM KABUL — Documentary Short Film

MTV Documentary Films’ THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING — Documentary Short Film

RED, WHITE AND BLUE — Live Action Short Film

See our clients’ previous awards and nominations.

  • Orly Ravid will be a guest speaker for Film Independent’s Amplifier Fellowship filmmakers on Dec. 12, 2024. The fellowship supports emerging and mid-career Black filmmakers.
  • Kathy Susca will be attending Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival in Warsaw, Nov. 21-25, 2024.
  • Jeffrey Winter, David Averbach, and Lynnette Gryseels are at DOC NYC, Nov. 13-21, 2024. Lynnette was a panelist on the 1:45pm “Film Financing Unveiled” panel for DOC NYC PRO Funding Day on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024.
  • Orly Ravid and Kathy Susca participated in Film Independent’s intensive film finance market, Fast Track, on November 13, 2024.
  • Jeffrey Winter was on a panel entitled Distribution in Flux: Reimagining and Thriving in the New Era at the Double Exposure Film Festival, Nov. 7-10, 2024, in Washington DC.
  • Lynnette Gryseels was at UCLA discussing funding at the seminar Funding & Producing Your Feature Film with Producer J. Todd Harris on Nov. 2, 2024.
  • Orly Ravid and David Averbach participated in Screen Nova Scotia’s Content Market Virtual Day on Oct. 15, 2024.

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  • September 2024
    TFC On Location, Emmy Awards, New Fiscal Projects, Grant Opportunities, Studio One Digital, and, of course, Tidbits!
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    New ReportCard, TFC On Location, Emmy Noms, New Fiscal Projects, Grant Opportunities, Lady Like Fall Theatrical, and, of course, Tidbits!
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    TFC On Location, TFC Distribution Days Replay, New Fiscal Projects, Grant Opportunities, and, of course, Tidbits!
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    TFC On Location, TFC Distribution Days, Getting Real Party, New Fiscal Projects, Grant Opportunities, and, of course, Tidbits!

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