Impact Partners

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).

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.

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), The Hunting Ground (2015), which was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Icarus (2017), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Of Fathers and Sons (2017), which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (2018), nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, and The Apollo which won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.

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

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

Filmography


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