Film distribution for Miami filmmakers. Mann Robinson Distribution places independent films, TV shows and reality series on streaming platforms including Tubi.
Mann Robinson Distribution works with filmmakers across Miami and South Florida, placing independent films and television projects on major streaming platforms and networks, including Tubi. It is an independent film and television distribution company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with presence in Detroit and Los Angeles. Miami filmmakers with a finished feature, series, sitcom or reality project can submit at mannrobinsondistribution.com/submit or write to distribution@mannrobinsonstudios.com.
The company licenses distribution rights only. The filmmaker keeps ownership of the film.
Miami filmmakers work without a statewide incentive program, and that shapes how independent films in the region get financed. Florida's statewide film tax credit expired on June 30, 2016 and has not been replaced, leaving incentives to individual counties.
Miami-Dade County has built its own programs in response. The High Impact Film Fund Program, approved in 2024 and sponsored by Commissioner Rene Garcia, commits up to $50 million over five years with a cash rebate of up to 20 percent, but it is aimed at larger productions: a minimum budget of $5 million, 90 percent of Florida production based in the county, 60 percent of qualified labor from county residents and 70 percent of vendors registered locally. The county's TV, Film and Entertainment Production Incentive Program reaches further down, with Tier 1 requiring $1 million in local spend for a maximum grant of $100,000 and Tier 2 covering spends of $500,000 to just under $1 million for up to $50,000. Each agreement goes before the Board of County Commissioners individually.
Those county thresholds are written for larger productions. Miami also has a residency built specifically around a first narrative feature. The Oolite Arts Cinematic Residency, launched in 2019, awards a $50,000 production grant plus studio space, year-round mentorship and festival strategy support to a South Florida filmmaker. Projects must run at least 70 minutes with at least 80 percent of production in South Florida, and residents receive a one-week theatrical run at O Cinema. Miami filmmakers Faren Humes and Edson Jean were each awarded $50,000 through it.
FilMiami, the Miami-Dade Office of Film and Entertainment, runs a one-stop permitting center through the Apply4 portal covering the county and dozens of its municipalities. The base permit fee is $150, standard permits generally need at least three business days, and the center was recognized with a National Association of Counties Achievement Award in 2023. Studio productions shoot in the county as well. Bad Boys: Ride or Die filmed in Miami and Brickell.
Miami-Dade is also home to the largest Spanish-language television production facility in the United States. Telemundo Center in Doral opened in 2018 with roughly 570,000 square feet, thirteen studios and forty-eight edit bays.
Miami Film Festival returns for its 43rd edition from April 9 to 19, 2026, screening across the Olympia Theater, Coral Gables Art Cinema, Bill Cosford Cinema and the Koubek Center in Little Havana, with more than $100,000 in cash awards given annually, including the Knight Made in MIA prize for locally produced films. The American Black Film Festival marks its 30th anniversary in Miami Beach from May 27 to 31, 2026. The Urban Film Festival returns for its 11th year over Labor Day weekend with nearly 200 independent films screened free across historic Overtown and downtown Miami. Third Horizon Film Festival programs Caribbean and diaspora cinema, and the Miami Short Film Festival reaches its 25th edition.
The films most identified with Miami are neighborhood specific. Moonlight is set in Liberty City, and writer Tarell Alvin McCraney and director Barry Jenkins both grew up in Miami and shot the film there. Monica Sorelle's Mountains was filmed entirely in Little Haiti and won the Made in MIA Feature Film Award and a $25,000 prize at Miami Film Festival. Borscht Corp., the Miami film collective that won a Knight Arts Challenge grant in 2010, produced Papa Machete, which screened at Sundance. Each of those films came through a festival run first. Distribution is the step that follows.
Mann Robinson Distribution licenses and places completed independent projects with streaming platforms and networks, then reports and pays on what they earn.
The distribution fee is 20 percent of gross. The term is two years, exclusive. The filmmaker keeps ownership of the film, because the agreement licenses distribution rights only. Payments are made quarterly. Titles typically go live about 90 days from signing.
Go live is typically about 90 days from signing. Miami filmmakers planning a release around a festival premiere should count backward from that 90 day window when they set a target date.
On ad supported platforms, earnings are impressions multiplied by CPM, not a flat rate per view. An impression is a served ad, and CPM is the rate paid per thousand impressions. Two titles with similar view counts can therefore earn different amounts, so a view count on its own does not describe what a title has earned.
Every filmmaker receives a portal login. The portal shows impressions, CPM and earnings broken out per platform, along with statements and full payment history. Payments are made quarterly, and the portal is where a Miami filmmaker can check performance between them.
Have the film and the paperwork finished before you make contact. The steps below cover what is generally in hand before a completed title is submitted.
No. Mann Robinson Distribution is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with presence in Detroit and Los Angeles, and it works with filmmakers across Miami and South Florida.
No. The filmmaker keeps ownership. Mann Robinson Distribution licenses distribution rights for a two year exclusive term.
Films, television shows, sitcoms and reality series. Completed independent projects from Miami filmmakers are considered through the submit page.
Quarterly. Statements and payment history are available in the filmmaker portal at any time.
Films rooted in specific Miami neighborhoods have reached audiences well beyond South Florida. Submit the finished film at mannrobinsondistribution.com/submit.