The conventional distribution playbook—a festival premiere followed by an all-rights platform deal—has never been less reliable. For filmmakers who were never offered that playbook, resourcefulness was already the strategy. Tikkun Olam Productions, a nonprofit cooperative, built the grassroots audience for their 2023 film Israelism themselves before it reached No. 1 on Apple TV’s documentary chart. Their latest award-winning project Vs. Goliath—a docuseries about frontline communities fighting fossil fuel giants—has recently launched its impact and distribution campaign with a large coalition of partners. The collective's grassroots success has led them to support high-impact campaigns for films including No Other Land, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Life After, The Encampments, and American Doctor, while also producing campaign media for social movements, consulting filmmakers on direct distribution strategy, and producing the video podcast Beyond Israelism for Zeteo.&nbsp; In this wide-ranging conversation with journalist and programmer Anthony Kaufman, three core members of the collective will discuss the practical architecture of their multi-modal model: what a direct distribution and impact team actually looks like, how release strategy shapes production from the outset, and what it means to build films for more than one outcome at a time. Moderator: Anthony Kaufman (Writer, Programmer)Panelists: Marielle Olentine, Pulkit Datta, and Nik Damants (Tikkun Olam Productions) Biographies (submitted by the speakers): Pulkit Datta is a producer, director, and film programmer, based in New York. Over fifteen years, he has worked on a wide range of scripted films, documentaries, commercials, short films, music videos and multimedia campaigns. His films have screened at festivals such as Toronto, Tribeca, Atlanta, Fantasia, LAAPFF, Cleveland, and OutFest. As a producer with Tikkun Olam Productions, he has co-produced the feature documentary ISRAELISM (Big Sky, CPH:Dox, Brooklyn Film Festival), and produced the climate activism doc series VS. GOLIATH (SeriesFest, DC/DOX) and video podcast BEYOND ISRAELISM (Zeteo). Pulkit is also a producer on the fiction feature JERSEY BOY, doc feature HOOP LIKE THIS, and previously INVISIBLE (Amazon Prime, Tubi), and the short documentary DO WE BELONG? (The Atlantic, 2018 IDA Doc Award shortlist). Pulkit has been a Producing Fellow at Center for Asian American Media as well as Impact Partners, and is an alum of Gotham Project Market. Nik Damants is a filmmaker and Director of Post-Production in the non-profit collective Tikkun Olam Productions. His past and current work includes the podcasts Generation Green New Deal for Critical Frequency, Fighting Fascism for The Nation, Beyond Israelism for Zeteo, and the feature length documentaries The Surrounding Game and Israelism. Marielle Olentine (she/they) is a multimedia storyteller, impact producer, and award-winning filmmaker championing a collaborative and regenerative approach to filmmaking and organizational leadership. She co-leads Tikkun Olam Productions, a non-hierarchical, consensus-based, nonprofit narrative change collective that specializes in justice-oriented storytelling and impact campaign design.As a storyteller she seeks to weave together narratives that honor, celebrate, and bridge differences, finding inspiration in the interconnectedness of the natural world and the devotion of oral story-keepers across the globe. Her work has appeared on VICE, Al Jazeera, and HBO and has premiered at festivals like TIFF, SXSW, Visions du Réel, and CIFF. Most recently her film Three Promises won Best Documentary at Camden International Film Festival &amp; DocPoint, Audience Awards at DocsIreland &amp; MENA Film Festival, and was an awarded finalist for the Henry Award for Public Interest Documentary. Anthony Kaufman is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to Documentary Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, and his&nbsp;<a href="https://anthonykaufman.substack.com/" target="_blank">Substack</a>; he is also a senior programmer at the Chicago International Film Festival and the Doc10 film festival, and film instructor at the New School and DePaul University.

The Possibility of More: A Conversation With Tikkun Olam Productions

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