Sony Pictures Classics, or SPC, is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Sony Pictures. It was founded in 1992 by former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom (similar to Fine Line Features, Focus Features, Miramax Films, Paramount Vantage, Searchlight Pictures, and Warner Independent Pictures). It distributes, produces and acquires specialty films such as documentaries, independent and art films in the United States and internationally. As of 2015, Barker and Bernard are co-presidents of the division.