Joshua Tate is a filmmaker 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.

Love Land, Josh’s earnest feature-length exploration of inclusive casting with actors with developmental disabilities, received the Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast at the 2014 New Orleans Film Festival. Guest Room, Josh’s short film 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. He is currently in post-production on Praytime, a restrained, emotionally layered ten-minute portrait of a pivotal moment between father and son that explores inherited belief and the fine line between love and control.

Josh’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). Josh also served as production counsel on Matt Groening’s Disenchantment series (Netflix).

Josh holds an MFA in film production from USC, psychology and film degrees 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.