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, Allen v. Farrow for HBO, and The Lincoln Project for Showtime.
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 Films Title Year Distributor 2007 Freeheld Cinemax 2010 The End of America IndiePix Films 2012 The Queen of Versailles Magnolia Pictures How to Survive a Plague Sundance Selects2013 Web JunkieDogwoof Anita: Speaking Truth to Power Samuel Goldwyn Films2014 Meet the Patels Alchemy Do I Sound Gay? Sundance Selects 2015 The Hunting Ground Radius-TWC 2016 Audrie & Daisy Netflix Notes on Blindness Artificial Eye City of Joy Netflix2017 Icarus Netflix Step Searchlight Pictures Bending the Arc Abramorama Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press Netflix Of Fathers and Sons Kino Lorber Voyeur Netflix 2018 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Focus Features Bathtubs Over Broadway Focus World Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes Magnolia Pictures 2019 Shooting the Mafia Cohen Media Group The Apollo HBO Documentary Films The Kingmaker Greenwich EntertainmentShowtime Documentary Films2020 Us Kids Greenwich Entertainment On the Record HBO Max Spaceship Earth Neon Giving Voice Netflix Athlete A Netflix Television Event N/A2021 Ailey Neon Dear Mr. Brody Greenwich EntertainmentDiscovery+ Fathom Apple TV Procession Netflix Found Netflix2022 32 Sounds Abramorama To the End Roadside Attractions Aftershock ABC News StudiosOnyx CollectiveHulu Mija Disney+ The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile Sony Pictures Classics The Grab Magnolia PicturesParticipant 2023 'It's Only Life After All Oscilloscope Laboratories Another Body WillaUtopia Going Varsity in Mariachi Netflix Confessions of a Good Samaritan Sandbox Films Breaking the News Independent Lens 2024 Union Level Ground Productions Gaucho Gaucho Jolt Eternal You Film Movement Sugarcane National Geographic Documentary Films Antidote Frontline Apocalypse in the Tropics Netflix Mistress Dispeller Oscilloscope Laboratories Homegrown Kinema The Shepherd and the Bear Willa2025Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Kino LorberAmerican Masters Move Ya Body: The Birth of House Baby Doe Fourth Act FilmPersimmon We Are Pat Tribeca Films Ask E. Jean Abramorama Remake Music Box Films 2026 One in a Million PBS Distribution The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer Mubi Edward Said: Between Worlds Rapinoe HBO Documentary Films
Television Title Year Network 2020 Immigration Nation Netflix 2021 Allen v. FarrowHBO Nuclear Family 2022 The Lincoln Project Showtime
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