Born in Israel, raised in Manhattan, and living in Los Angeles, Orly Ravid is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of The Film Collaborative (TFC) and the Associate Dean of the Biederman Entertainment & Media Law Institute at Southwestern Law School.
She was an Of Counsel entertainment attorney at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK), and Senior Counsel at Tubi and now has her own firm Creative Arts Legal.
Orly has over 20 years of experience in independent film as an acquisitions and business affairs executive, and she started doing and publicly speaking about VOD distribution and splitting rights in the early 2000s. Orly launched TFC’s Digital Distribution Guide and other distribution related educational resources as part of Distripedia which the organization offers for free.