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Impact Partners

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Impact Partners
IndustryFilm industry
Founder
Key people
  • Dan Cogan
  • Geralyn Dreyfous
  • Jenny Raskin
  • Amy Augustino
  • Lauren Haber
  • Kelsey Koening
  • Claudia Liss-Schultz
  • Emma Foley
Websiteimpactpartnersfilm.com

Impact Partners is an American film production and television production company founded in 2007, by Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous. The company primarily produces documentary films focusing on social issues.

They have produced such films as The Queen of Versailles (2012), How to Survive a Plague (2012), The Hunting Ground (2015), Icarus, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Of Fathers and Sons (2017), Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), and On the Record (2020).

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Dan Cogan

Dan Cogan

Dan Cogan is an American film producer. He has produced multiple documentary films including The Queen of Versailles (2012), How to Survive a Plague (2012), The Hunting Ground (2015), Icarus (2017), Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), On the Record (2020), and has produced documentary series including I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2020), and Allen v. Farrow (2021). Cogan is the co-founder of Impact Partners, Gamechanger Films, and Story Syndicate.

Geralyn Dreyfous

Geralyn Dreyfous

Geralyn White Dreyfous is an American film producer. She has produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including The Invisible War (2012), The Square (2013), The Hunting Ground (2015), Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), The Great Hack (2019), and On the Record (2020). Dreyfous has been nominated for Primetime Emmy awards.

The Queen of Versailles

The Queen of Versailles

The Queen of Versailles is a 2012 American documentary film by Lauren Greenfield. The film depicts Jackie Siegel and David Siegel, owners of Westgate Resorts, and their family as they build their private residence – Versailles, one of the largest and most expensive single-family houses in the United States – and the crisis they face as the US economy declines.

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague is a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of activist groups ACT UP and TAG. It was directed by David France, a journalist who covered AIDS from its beginnings. France's first film, it was dedicated to his partner Doug Gould who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992. The documentary was produced using more than 700 hours of archived footage which included news coverage, interviews as well as film of demonstrations, meetings and conferences taken by ACT UP members themselves. France says they knew what they were doing was historic, and that many of them would die. The film, which opened in select theatres across the United States on September 21, 2012, also includes footage of a demonstration during mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1989.

The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground is a 2015 American documentary film about the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses in the United States and the reported failure of college administrations to deal with it adequately. Written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering, it premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released on February 27, 2015, an edited version aired on CNN on November 22, 2015, and was released on DVD the week of December 1, 2015. It was released on Netflix in March 2016. Lady Gaga recorded an original song, "Til It Happens to You," for the film, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus is a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel. It chronicles Fogel's exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017, and was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award. Netflix acquired the distribution rights and released Icarus globally on August 4, 2017. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Of Fathers and Sons

Of Fathers and Sons

Of Fathers and Sons is a 2017 Arabic-language German-Syrian documentary film directed by Talal Derki about radical jihadism and terrorist training in Syria.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? is a 2018 American documentary film about the life and guiding philosophy of Fred Rogers, the host and creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, directed by Morgan Neville. The trailer for the film debuted on what would have been Rogers' 90th birthday, March 20, 2018.

On the Record (film)

On the Record (film)

On the Record is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. It centers on allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. Executive producer Oprah Winfrey publicly withdrew from the film shortly before it was released, citing "creative differences", severing a production deal with Apple TV+. The film premiered at Sundance on January 25, 2020, and was acquired by HBO Max, which released it digitally on May 27, 2020.

History

In 2007, Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous founded the company, focusing on financing and producing documentary film and television projects, focusing on social issues.[1]

The company has produced films which have gone on to receive critical acclaim and awards, including Freeheld (2007), which won Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject),[2] The Hunting Ground (2015), which was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking,[3] Icarus (2017), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature,[4] Of Fathers and Sons (2017), which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature,[5] Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (2018), nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking,[6] and The Apollo which won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.[7]

Apart from films, the company has produced television shows including Immigration Nation for Netflix,[8] and Allen v. Farrow for HBO.[9]

In 2018, the company announced it would support the development of 4-8 non-fiction projects a year, ranging between $10k-100k.[10] In January 2020, Jenny Raskin was named executive director of the company.[11]

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Dan Cogan

Dan Cogan

Dan Cogan is an American film producer. He has produced multiple documentary films including The Queen of Versailles (2012), How to Survive a Plague (2012), The Hunting Ground (2015), Icarus (2017), Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), On the Record (2020), and has produced documentary series including I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2020), and Allen v. Farrow (2021). Cogan is the co-founder of Impact Partners, Gamechanger Films, and Story Syndicate.

Geralyn Dreyfous

Geralyn Dreyfous

Geralyn White Dreyfous is an American film producer. She has produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including The Invisible War (2012), The Square (2013), The Hunting Ground (2015), Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), The Great Hack (2019), and On the Record (2020). Dreyfous has been nominated for Primetime Emmy awards.

Freeheld (2007 film)

Freeheld (2007 film)

Freeheld is a 2007 documentary film directed by Cynthia Wade. It chronicles the story of Laurel Hester in her fight against the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders to give her earned pension benefits to her partner, Stacie. On February 24, 2008, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. The documentary also won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.

Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

The Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking is handed out annually at the Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremony since 2005. Entries are reviewed by a jury on the basis of the "filmmaker's expressed vision, compelling power of storytelling, artistry or innovation of craft, and the capacity to inform, transport, impact, enlighten, and create a moving and indelible work that elevates the art of documentary filmmaking." Entrants are ineligible for Outstanding Informational Series or Special and Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus is a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel. It chronicles Fogel's exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017, and was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award. Netflix acquired the distribution rights and released Icarus globally on August 4, 2017. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Of Fathers and Sons

Of Fathers and Sons

Of Fathers and Sons is a 2017 Arabic-language German-Syrian documentary film directed by Talal Derki about radical jihadism and terrorist training in Syria.

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes is a 2018 American documentary film, directed and produced by Alexis Bloom. It follows the rise and fall of conservative media mogul Roger Ailes. Alex Gibney serves as an executive producer under his Jigsaw Productions banner.

Immigration Nation

Immigration Nation

Immigration Nation is a 2020 documentary streaming television miniseries directed by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz. The series consists of footage filmed from 2017 to 2020 of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's work during the Trump era.

Netflix

Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it operates the over-the-top subscription video on-demand service Netflix brand, which includes original films and television series commissioned or acquired by the company, and third-party content licensed from other distributors. Netflix is a member of the Motion Picture Association—having become the first streaming company to become a member.

Allen v. Farrow

Allen v. Farrow

Allen v. Farrow is an American documentary television miniseries directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering that explores an allegation of sexual abuse made against Woody Allen in 1992. It consists of four episodes and premiered on February 21, 2021, on HBO.

HBO

HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side district. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs.

Jenny Raskin

Jenny Raskin

Jennifer Raskin is a film and television producer and director.

Filmography

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Freeheld (2007 film)

Freeheld (2007 film)

Freeheld is a 2007 documentary film directed by Cynthia Wade. It chronicles the story of Laurel Hester in her fight against the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders to give her earned pension benefits to her partner, Stacie. On February 24, 2008, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. The documentary also won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague is a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of activist groups ACT UP and TAG. It was directed by David France, a journalist who covered AIDS from its beginnings. France's first film, it was dedicated to his partner Doug Gould who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992. The documentary was produced using more than 700 hours of archived footage which included news coverage, interviews as well as film of demonstrations, meetings and conferences taken by ACT UP members themselves. France says they knew what they were doing was historic, and that many of them would die. The film, which opened in select theatres across the United States on September 21, 2012, also includes footage of a demonstration during mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1989.

Anita: Speaking Truth to Power

Anita: Speaking Truth to Power

Anita: Speaking Truth to Power is an 2013 American documentary film, written, directed, and produced by Freida Mock. It follows Anita Hill, a lawyer who testified against Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination, exposing the problem of sexual harassment around the world.

Meet the Patels

Meet the Patels

Meet the Patels is a 2014 American romantic comedy documentary film directed by siblings Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel. The film explores the expectations surrounding marriage in the Patels' first-generation Indian immigrant family and in wider American society. It had its international premiere at Hot Docs in April 2014.

Do I Sound Gay?

Do I Sound Gay?

Do I Sound Gay? is a 2014 American documentary film by David Thorpe that explores the existence and accuracy of stereotypes about the speech patterns of gay men, and the ways in which one's degree of conformity to the stereotype can contribute to internalized homophobia. Other figures participating in the film include Dan Savage, George Takei, David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, and Margaret Cho, as well as University of Toronto linguist Ron Smyth.

Audrie & Daisy

Audrie & Daisy

Audrie & Daisy is an American 2016 documentary film about two cases of rape of teenage American girls, in 2011 and 2012.

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness is a 2016 British documentary film directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney. The film profiles writer and theologian John M. Hull, who became totally blind after decades of steadily deteriorating vision. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, Hull began documenting his experiences on audio cassette and wrote his autobiography Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness in 1990.

City of Joy (2016 film)

City of Joy (2016 film)

City of Joy is a 2016 documentary film directed and written by Madeleine Gavin. It follows the first class of students at a leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus (2017 film)

Icarus is a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel. It chronicles Fogel's exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017, and was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award. Netflix acquired the distribution rights and released Icarus globally on August 4, 2017. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc is a 2017 documentary film. It tells the story of Partners in Health and doctors and humanitarians, Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl, and Paul Farmer, who are devoted to innovative health care in impoverished nations. Directors Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos follow their ongoing struggle to treat and eradicate tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in rural areas of Haiti, Peru, and Rwanda.

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press is a 2017 Netflix documentary directed by Brian Knappenberger. The documentary is themed around the effects of big money on American journalism. The documentary focuses on two incidents: Peter Thiel financing wrestler Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media, and casino owner Sheldon Adelson's secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Bathtubs Over Broadway is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Dava Whisenant. Comedy writer Steve Young’s assignment to scour bargain-bin vinyl for a late-night segment becomes an unexpected, decades-spanning obsession when he stumbles upon the strange and hilarious world of industrial musicals. The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was released on November 30, 2018 by Focus World.

Source: "Impact Partners", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 26th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_Partners.

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City of Ghosts (2017 film)

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes
References
  1. ^ "About Us". Impact Partners. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  2. ^ Tehrani, Bijan (February 23, 2008). "Freeheld Wins the Best Documentary Short Film Award". Cinema Without Borders. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "The Hunting Ground". The Emmys. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  4. ^ McNary, Dave (March 4, 2018). "Netflix Wins First Feature Documentary Oscar With 'Icarus'". Variety. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  5. ^ "Of Fathers and Sons". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  6. ^ "Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes". The Emmys. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  7. ^ Hersko, Tyler (September 14, 2020). "'The Apollo' Wins Emmy for Outstanding Documentary". IndieWire. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  8. ^ "Immigration Nation". Impact Partners. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  9. ^ Siegel, Tatiana (February 5, 2021). "Secret, Explosive Woody Allen Doc Series From Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Coming to HBO". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  10. ^ O'Falt, Chris (November 13, 2018). "Oscar-Winning Documentary Backer Now Taking Pitches to Develop and Fund New Non-Fiction Work". IndieWire. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  11. ^ Morfoot, Addie (January 8, 2020). "Impact Partners Names Jenny Raskin Executive Director (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
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