ABOUT 13TH GEN
Founded in 2009, 13th Gen is a San Francisco-based film company owned and operated by multi-award-winning independent filmmaker Marc Smolowitz. With talent development as our main focus, the company wears many hats across the entertainment industry and assists filmmakers to achieve their goals in the global entertainment marketplace.
The company’s long list of credits includes films that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, SXSW, Tribeca, Chicago, SFFILM, Thessaloniki, AFI Docs, IDFA, DOC NYC, CPH: DOX, Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, Viennale, Krakow, Jerusalem, among others. Partnering closely with festivals around the world to advance the sales and distribution footprint of independent movies has been a major focus of 13th Gen’s success.
MARC SMOLOWITZ, FOUNDER & CEO
One of the company’s core services is handling the worldwide festival release for films that Smolowitz is actively involved with as a producer, executive producer, or consulting producer. The company also handles world sales for a small selection of titles each year.
In 2016, Smolowitz received one of the prestigious Gotham Fellowships to attend the Cannes Film Festival’s Producers Network, marking him as one of the USA’s most influential independent film producers.
As a director/producer, his 2011 film THE POWER OF TWO premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival and went on to screen at 35 festivals around the globe, winning 10 major prizes, garnering theatrical release in the USA and Japan, and selling to Hulu in the USA and Netflix in Japan.
In 2026, Smolowitz’s newest film as a director, THE LONELY CHILD, world-premiered at the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival. He is also currently in post-production as a director on THE G WORD, a film about giftedness, intelligence, and neurodiversity.
Smolowitz's recent work includes the following widely seen and award-winning films:
SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME by Andy Fidoten; LADY CHAMPAGNE by D’Arcy Drollinger; UNCLE ROY by Keri Pickett; OUTERLANDS by Elena Oxman (Indendependent Spirit Award Nomination); DIAMOND DIPLOMACY by Yuriko Gamo Romer; A DEEPER LOVE: THE STORY OF MISS PEPPERMINT by Oriel Pe’er; FINDING THE MONEY by Maren Poitras; WHO I AM NOT by Tunde Skovran; COMING AROUND by Sandra Itainen; NARROW PATH TO HAPPINESS by Kata Olah; HOLDING MOSES by Rivkah Beth Medow & Jen Rainin; BEING BEBE by Emily Branham; BALONEY by Joshua Guerci; LOS HERMANOS by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider; SURVIVING THE SILENCE by Cindy L. Abel; SHIT & CHAMPAGNE by D’Arcy Drollinger; TRANSFINITE by Neelu Bhuman; PATERNAL RITES by Jules Rosskam; 50 YEARS OF FABULOUS by Jethro Patalinghug; KIM SWIMS by Kate Webber; THE NINE by Katy Grannan; DESERT MIGRATION by Daniel Cardone; BURIED ABOVE GROUND by Ben Selkow; and, HEAVEN ADORES YOU by Nickolas Rossi, among others.
Early in his career, he was a producer on Sam Green's THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND (Academy Award Nomination, 2003), and he produced Sandi DuBowski's TREMBLING BEFORE G-D (2001), a film that has been called one of the top 100 documentaries of all time.