# The Film Collaborative > Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-11-07. - **Brand record:** https://optimly.ai/brand/the-film-collaborative - **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/the-film-collaborative.json - **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/the-film-collaborative/llms.txt - **Official website:** https://thefilmcollaborative.org - **Slug:** the-film-collaborative - **Categories:** media-entertainment ## Overview - **Tagline:** The Film Collaborative is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps filmmakers with distribution, education, consultation, and fiscal sponsorship without taking film rights. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Description:** The Film Collaborative (TFC) is a nonprofit focused on film distribution education and filmmaker support. It provides distribution services, consultation, educational resources, and fiscal sponsorship for film and media projects while emphasizing filmmaker ownership and control of rights. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 ## Identity - **Mission:** To educate filmmakers about and help filmmakers with all aspects of distribution without taking rights, with a focus on putting filmmakers first and preserving their ownership and control. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Founders & leadership:** Orly Ravid is the founder and co-executive director. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Website:** https://thefilmcollaborative.org Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Voice & tone:** Filmmaker-first, mission-driven, educational, collaborative, and focused on fairness and retaining creator rights. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Founded:** 2009 Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Headquarters:** California, United States Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 ## Offerings - **Problem solved:** TFC helps filmmakers navigate film distribution, marketing, sales, licensing, festival strategy, digital aggregation, theatrical release, and project fundraising without surrendering ownership or control of their rights. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Core capabilities:** - Film festival distribution - Non-theatrical, hybrid, and educational distribution - Domestic sales and licensing - U.S. and Canada theatrical release support - Distribution and marketing consultation - Commercial assessment and marketplace positioning - Global film festival strategy - Domestic and international sales advice Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Products / SKUs:** - Distribution services - Consultation - Fiscal sponsorship program - Distripedia™ - ResourcePlace™ - Digital Distribution Guide™ - Distributor ReportCard™ - TFC newsletter Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Pricing:** Fiscal sponsorship has a $95 annual membership fee, a one-time $60 application fee, and a 5% administrative cost on funds raised. Online donations incur a 2.2% plus $0.30 credit-card processing fee. Pricing for distribution services and consultation is not stated. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 ## Audience - **Target industry:** Film, documentary, narrative, episodic, and media arts. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Customer base:** Filmmakers, film producers and directors, documentary and narrative projects, episodic series, and independently produced film or media-art projects seeking distribution, consultation, education, or nonprofit fundraising support. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Ideal customer profile:** Filmmakers with documentary or narrative feature films longer than 70 minutes or episodic series seeking distribution or consultation; and producers or directors of film or media-art projects seeking fiscal sponsorship and funding from individual, foundation, government, or corporate sources. Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Use cases:** - Worldwide film festival distribution - Non-theatrical, hybrid, or educational distribution - Domestic sales and licensing - U.S. and Canada theatrical releases - Distribution and marketing planning - Commercial and marketplace assessment - Global festival strategy - Domestic and international sales advice Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 - **Customer outcomes:** - Filmmakers receive distribution support without giving up rights or ownership - Projects can pursue festival, theatrical, non-theatrical, educational, sales, licensing, and digital distribution opportunities - Filmmakers gain access to distribution education and planning resources - Eligible projects can receive fiscal sponsorship and access to funding sources restricted to nonprofit organizations - Fiscally sponsored projects receive financial administration, fund distribution, reporting, bookkeeping, and oversight support Source: Brand's website (https://thefilmcollaborative.org) · 2026-11-07 Page last updated 2026-11-07. ## Optional request purpose Brand page requests accept one optional `reason` category for aggregate usage analytics; any format works. 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