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Dan Cogan

{{short description|American film producer and director|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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|name = Dan Cogan

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|years_active = 1997–present

|occupation = Producer, director, writer

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|spouse = Liz Garbus

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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.[https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/impact-partners-dan-cogan-launches-documentary-development-fund-1202020191/ "Oscar-Winning Documentary Backer Now Taking Pitches to Develop and Fund New Non-Fiction Work," IndieWire, November 13, 2018]{{cite web|url=https://www.impactpartnersfilm.com/about-us|title=About Us|website=Impact Partners|accessdate=August 29, 2021}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/02/20/147060968/one-marines-journey-to-hell-and-back-again|title=One Marine's Journey To 'Hell And Back Again'|website=NPR|date=January 20, 2012|access-date=August 29, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-oscar-docs-how-to-survive-a-plague|title=The 2013 Oscar Documentaries, Part 1: ‘How to Survive a Plague|website=PBS News Hour|date=February 13, 2013|access-date=August 29, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/oscars-icarus-best-documentary-feature-film-1202717030/|title=Netflix Wins First Feature Documentary Oscar With ‘Icarus’|website=Variety|first=Dave|last=McNary|date=March 4, 2018|accessdate=February 20, 2021}} By January 2020, Cogan stepped down and began serving as an advisor to the company.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/impact-partners-jenny-raskin-executive-director-1203460619/|title=Impact Partners Names Jenny Raskin Executive Director (EXCLUSIVE)|website=Variety|first=Addie|last=Morfoot|date=January 8, 2020|accessdate=August 29, 2021}}

Cogan has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, for Icarus, The Fourth Estate, The Apollo, which won the award, and Allen v. Farrow.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/the-apollo-emmys-outstanding-documentary-1234585880/|title=‘The Apollo’ Wins Emmy for Outstanding Documentary|website=IndieWire|first=Tyler|last=Hesko|date=September 14, 2020|access-date=August 29, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/dan-cogan|title=Dan Cogan|website=Primetime Emmy Awards|access-date=August 29, 2021}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-xpm-2013-sep-27-la-et-ct-film-fund-gamechanger-female-directors-20130926-story.html|title=New movie fund Gamechanger Films is formed to back women directors|website=The Los Angeles Times|first=Steven|last=Zeitcheck|date=September 27, 2013|access-date=August 29, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gamechanger-films.com/founders|title=Gamechanger Films|website=Gamechanger Films|access-date=August 29, 2021}} In June 2019, Cogan co-founded Story Syndicate, a film and television production company alongside Liz Garbus.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/documentary-dan-coga-liz-garbus-launch-production-company-story-syndicate-1202149001/|title=Documentarians Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus Launch New Production Company — Exclusive|website=IndieWire|first=Anne|last=Thompson|date=June 17, 2019|access-date=August 29, 2021}}

Personal life

Cogan is married to Liz Garbus, and the two have two children together.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/liz-garbus-dan-cogan-reinvent-doc-filmmaking-pandemic-1289089/|title=How Hollywood Works Now: Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan Rethink How to Make Documentaries|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Rebecca|last=Keegan|date=April 8, 2020|access-date=August 29, 2021}}

Filmography

References

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Externals

  • {{Official website|https://www.icarus.film/}}
  • [https://www.impactpartnersfilm.com/about-us#modal-11 Dan Cogan] at Impact Partners Film
  • {{IMDb name|0169000}}

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Category:American documentary film producers

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Category:Producers who won the Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award

Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners