Dan Cogan

American film producer and director

Dan Cogan
Occupation(s)	Producer, director, writer
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Liz Garbus
Children	2^[1]

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.

Cogan has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Icarus and The Apollo (2019), and has been nominated for two other Emmy awards.

Career

In 2007, Cogan co-founded Impact Partners a documentary film and television production company alongside Geralyn Dreyfous.^[2]^[3] Cogan has produced multiple films which have gone on to receive Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominations including Hell and Back Again, directed by Danfung Dennis, How to Survive a Plague by David France, and Icarus, directed by Bryan Fogel, which won the award.^[4]^[5]^[6] By January 2020, Cogan stepped down and began serving as an advisor to the company.^[7]

Cogan has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, for Icarus, The Fourth Estate, The Apollo, which won the award, and Allen v. Farrow.^[8]^[9] For his work on the docuseries Nuclear Family he was a nominee for a 2021 Peabody Award.

In 2013, Cogan co-founded Gamechanger Films, a production company dedicated to financing films directed by women.^[10]^[11] In June 2019, Cogan co-founded Story Syndicate, a film and television production company alongside Liz Garbus.^[12]

Personal life

Cogan is married to Liz Garbus, and the two have two children together.^[13]

Filmography

2023: Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York (executive producer)
2023: Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence (executive producer)
2022: Harry & Meghan (Documentary) (executive producer)
2021: Mayor Pete (producer)
2021: Fauci (producer)
2021: Becoming Cousteau (producer)
2021: Dear Mr. Brody (executive producer)
2021: Allen v. Farrow (executive producer)
2020: All In: The Fight for Democracy (producer)
2020: Love & Stuff (executive producer)
2020: Us Kids (executive producer)
2020: Spaceship Earth (executive producer)
2020: On the Record (executive producer)
2019: The Apollo (Documentary) (executive producer)
2018: Bathtubs Over Broadway (Documentary) (executive producer)
2018: Divide and Conquer: The Roger Ailes Story (Documentary) (executive producer)
2018: The Long Dumb Road (executive producer)
2018: Bisbee '17 (Documentary) (executive producer)
2018: Nancy (co-executive producer)
2018: The Tale (executive producer)
2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: Voyeur (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: Of Fathers and Sons (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: Hunting Season (executive producer)
2017: Insha'Allah Democracy (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: The Reagan Show (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: The Strange Ones (co-executive producer)
2017: Bending the Arc (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: Step (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: Dina (Documentary) (executive producer)
2017: Icarus (Documentary) (producer)
2017: Unrest (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: Independent Lens (TV Series documentary)
2016: City of Joy (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: Buster's Mal Heart' (executive producer)
2016: Theo Who Lived (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: Death by Design (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: Night School (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: The Pearl (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: Lovesong (executive producer)
2016: Notes on Blindness (Documentary) (executive producer)
2016: Nuts! (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (executive producer - 3 episodes, 2012 - 2015)
2015: Havana Motor Club (Documentary) (executive producer)
2015: Song of Lahore (Documentary) (executive producer)
2015: Addicted to Fresno (executive producer)
2015: The Invitation (executive producer)
2015: Dreamcatcher (Documentary) (executive producer)
2015: Chuck Norris vs Communism (Documentary) (executive producer)
2015: Sembene! (Documentary) (executive producer)
2015: The Hunting Ground (Documentary) (executive producer)
2015: How to Change the World (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: Do I Sound Gay? (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: Meet the Patels (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: Vessel (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: Watchers of the Sky (Documentary) (executive producer)
2014: Land Ho! (executive producer)
2013: Midway (Documentary) (executive producer)
2013: Remote Area Medical (Documentary) (executive producer)
2013: Our Nixon (Documentary) (executive producer)
2013: American Promise (Documentary) (co-executive producer)
2013: Pandora's Promise (Documentary) (executive producer)
2013: The Crash Reel (Documentary) (executive producer: Impact Partners)
2013: Who is Dayani Cristal? (Documentary) (executive producer)
2013: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (Documentary) (executive producer)
2012: Sofia's Last Ambulance (Documentary) (executive producer)
2012: Knuckleball! (Documentary) (producer)
2012: How to Survive a Plague (Documentary) (executive producer)
2012: Detropia (Documentary) (executive producer)
2012: The Queen of Versailles (Documentary) (executive producer)
2011: Lemon (Documentary) (executive producer)
2011: Fightville (Documentary) (executive producer)
2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World (Documentary) (executive producer)
2011: Chess History (Video documentary short) (executive producer)
2011: Hell and Back Again (Documentary) (executive producer)
2011: The Fight for Fischer's Estate (Video documentary short) (executive producer)
2010: Lost Bohemia (Documentary) (executive producer)
2010: One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey (Documentary short) (executive producer)
2010: Sons of Perdition (Documentary) (supervising producer)
2010: Secrets of the Tribe (Documentary) (executive producer: Impact Partners)
2009: American Experience (TV Series documentary) (co-producer - 1 episode)
2009: Children of Invention (executive producer)
2009: No Impact Man: The Documentary (Documentary) (executive producer)
2008: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Documentary) (co-producer)
2008: The End of America (Documentary) (supervising producer)
2008: The Garden (Documentary) (supervising producer)
2008: Lioness (Documentary) (supervising producer)
2008: Kick Like a Girl (Short) (supervising producer)
2008: Secrecy (Documentary) (supervising producer)
2008: The Recruiter (Documentary) (supervising producer)
2007: Freeheld (Documentary short) (supervising producer)
2005: Torte Bluma (Short) (producer)
1999: The Lifestyle (Documentary) (producer)
1997: Number One Fan (producer)

References

^ "'Icarus,' a film with deep Boston ties, wins best documentary at the Oscars - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
^ "Oscar-Winning Documentary Backer Now Taking Pitches to Develop and Fund New Non-Fiction Work," IndieWire, November 13, 2018
^ "About Us". Impact Partners. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ "One Marine's Journey To 'Hell And Back Again'". NPR. January 20, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ "The 2013 Oscar Documentaries, Part 1: 'How to Survive a Plague". PBS News Hour. February 13, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ McNary, Dave (March 4, 2018). "Netflix Wins First Feature Documentary Oscar With 'Icarus'". Variety. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
^ Morfoot, Addie (January 8, 2020). "Impact Partners Names Jenny Raskin Executive Director (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ Hesko, Tyler (September 14, 2020). "'The Apollo' Wins Emmy for Outstanding Documentary". IndieWire. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ "Dan Cogan". Primetime Emmy Awards. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ Zeitcheck, Steven (September 27, 2013). "New movie fund Gamechanger Films is formed to back women directors". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ "Gamechanger Films". Gamechanger Films. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ Thompson, Anne (June 17, 2019). "Documentarians Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus Launch New Production Company — Exclusive". IndieWire. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ Keegan, Rebecca (April 8, 2020). "How Hollywood Works Now: Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan Rethink How to Make Documentaries". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 29, 2021.