Joshua Tate is a writer, director, producer, and entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles. He is a Student Emmy winner, San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation grantee, and Film Independent fellow in screenwriting and directing. As an attorney, Joshua represents writers, directors, producers, animators, and production companies at one of the top entertainment law firms in the industry.
Love Land, Joshua’s feature-length directorial debut, is driven by a cast with developmental disabilities and garnered the Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast at the 2014 New Orleans Film Festival. His short film Guest Room, starring Glee’s Lauren Potter, premiered at SXSW, streamed on Hulu as an NBCU Short Film Festival finalist, was featured in a HuffPost op-ed, and is a Vimeo Staff Pick with over 150,000 views.
Joshua’s production management/coordination experience includes JD Dillard’s Sleight (Sundance), Max Winkler’s Flower (Tribeca), and Meera Menon’s Farah Goes Bang (Tribeca, Nora Ephron Prize). Joshua also served as production counsel on Matt Groening’s Disenchantment series (Netflix).
Joshua holds an MFA in film production from USC, a radio-television-film degree from UT Austin, and a JD from UCLA, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the UCLA Entertainment Law Review. He has been recognized by the Feminist Majority Foundation, Public Counsel, and the Western Center on Law and Poverty for his advocacy on behalf of Ms. magazine, asylum seekers, and foster children with mental illness.