The Film Collaborative
Jeffrey Winter is co executive director at The Film Collaborative since 2010, an LA-based independent film distribution company with specialities in human rights, social justice, environmental issues, and LGBT cinema. Highlight films during this time include Shaunak Sen’s ALL THAT BREATHES (Oscar nomination Best Doc Feature 2023), Maite Alberdi (Oscar Nomination Best Doc Feature 2024), Kirby Dick’s THE INVISIBLE WAR (Oscar Nomination Best Doc Feature 2013), David France’s THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON and WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, Nanfu Wang’s HOOLIGAN SPARROW, Andrew Haigh’s WEEKEND, Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules’ MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE; Sam Feder’s DISCLOSURE, Jacqueline Olive’s ALWAYS IN SEASON, David Charles Rodrigues’ GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH, Ondi Timoner’s MAPPLETHORPE, Kirsten Johnson’s CAMERAPERSON, Louie Psihoyos’ RACING EXTINCTION, Jeffrey Schwarz’s I AM DIVINE, VITO, and many more. Other career highlights include five years managing strategic investments and U.S. sales/acquisitions for the largest media conglomerate in Spain (under the banners Maxmedia, Sogepaq, Sogetel, and Sogecine); several years handling grassroots marketing for L.A.’s two largest film festivals (the Los Angeles Film Festival and AFI FEST); a long tenure handling non-theatrical/festival/educational screenings for Wolfe Releasing (the world’s largest catalogue of LGBT films); and 11 years as a panel programmer/programming consultant for the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier.
