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Impact Partners is an Americanfilm production andtelevision production company founded in 2007, byDan Cogan andGeralyn Dreyfous. The company primarily producesdocumentary films focusing on social issues.
They have produced such films asThe Queen of Versailles (2012),How to Survive a Plague (2012),The Hunting Ground (2015),Icarus, which won theAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature,Of Fathers and Sons (2017),Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), andOn the Record (2020).
In 2007,Dan Cogan andGeralyn Dreyfous founded the company, focusing on financing and producingdocumentary film and television projects, focusing on social issues.[1]
The company has produced films which have gone on to receive critical acclaim and awards, includingFreeheld (2007), which wonAcademy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject),[2]The Hunting Ground (2015), which was nominated forPrimetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking,[3]Icarus (2017), which won theAcademy 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] andThe Apollo which won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.[7]
Apart from films, the company has produced television shows includingImmigration Nation forNetflix,[8]Allen v. Farrow forHBO,[9] andThe Lincoln Project forShowtime.[10]
In 2018, the company announced it would support the development of 4-8 non-fiction projects a year, ranging between $10k-100k.[11] In January 2020,Jenny Raskin was named executive director of the company.[12]