Dan Cogan


Dan Cogan is an American film producer. He has produced multiple documentary films including The Queen of Versailles, How to Survive a Plague, The Hunting Ground, Icarus, Won't You Be My Neighbor, On the Record, and has produced documentary series including I'll Be Gone in the Dark, and Allen v. Farrow. 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, 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. 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. By January 2020, Cogan stepped down and began serving as an advisor to the company.
Cogan has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, for Icarus, The Fourth Estate, The Apollo, which won the award, and Allen v. Farrow. 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. In June 2019, Cogan co-founded Story Syndicate, a film and television production company alongside Liz Garbus.

Personal life

Cogan is married to Liz Garbus, and the two have two children together.

Filmography

  • 2026: Give Me the Ball!
  • 2025: One Night in Idaho: The College Murders
  • 2025: Titan: The OceanGate Disaster
  • 2025: Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer
  • 2025: Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
  • 2025: Sally
  • 2023: Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York
  • 2023: Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
  • 2022: Harry & Meghan
  • 2021: Mayor Pete
  • 2021: Fauci
  • 2021: Becoming Cousteau
  • 2021: Dear Mr. Brody
  • 2021: Allen v. Farrow
  • 2020: All In: The Fight for Democracy
  • 2020: Love & Stuff
  • 2020: Us Kids
  • 2020: Spaceship Earth
  • 2020: On the Record
  • 2019: The Apollo
  • 2018: Bathtubs Over Broadway
  • 2018: Divide and Conquer: The Roger Ailes Story
  • 2018: The Long Dumb Road
  • 2018: Bisbee '17
  • 2018: Nancy
  • 2018: The Tale
  • 2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  • 2017: Voyeur
  • 2017: Of Fathers and Sons
  • 2017: Hunting Season
  • 2017: Insha'Allah Democracy
  • 2017: The Reagan Show
  • 2017: The Strange Ones
  • 2017: Bending the Arc
  • 2017: Step
  • 2017: Dina
  • 2017: Icarus
  • 2017: Unrest
  • 2016: Independent Lens
  • 2016: City of Joy
  • 2016: Buster's Mal Heart
  • 2016: Theo Who Lived
  • 2016: Death by Design
  • 2016: Night School
  • 2016: The Pearl
  • 2016: Lovesong
  • 2016: Notes on Blindness
  • 2016: Nuts!
  • 2014: P.O.V.
  • 2015: Havana Motor Club
  • 2015: Song of Lahore
  • 2015: Addicted to Fresno
  • 2015: The Invitation
  • 2015: Dreamcatcher
  • 2015: Chuck Norris vs Communism
  • 2015: Sembene!
  • 2015: The Hunting Ground
  • 2015: How to Change the World
  • 2014: Do I Sound Gay?
  • 2014: Meet the Patels
  • 2014: The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga
  • 2014: Vessel
  • 2014: Watchers of the Sky
  • 2014: Land Ho!
  • 2013: Midway
  • 2013: Remote Area Medical
  • 2013: Our Nixon
  • 2013: American Promise
  • 2013: Pandora's Promise
  • 2013: The Crash Reel
  • 2013: Who is Dayani Cristal?
  • 2013: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power
  • 2012: Sofia's Last Ambulance
  • 2012: Knuckleball!
  • 2012: How to Survive a Plague
  • 2012: Detropia
  • 2012: The Queen of Versailles
  • 2011: Lemon
  • 2011: Fightville
  • 2011: Bobby Fischer Against the World
  • 2011: Chess History
  • 2011: Hell and Back Again
  • 2011: The Fight for Fischer's Estate
  • 2010: Lost Bohemia
  • 2010: One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
  • 2010: Sons of Perdition
  • 2010: Secrets of the Tribe
  • 2009: American Experience
  • 2009: Children of Invention
  • 2009: No Impact Man: The Documentary
  • 2008: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • 2008: The End of America
  • 2008: The Garden
  • 2008: Lioness
  • 2008: Kick Like a Girl
  • 2008: Secrecy
  • 2008: The Recruiter
  • 2007: Freeheld
  • 2005: Torte Bluma
  • 1999: The Lifestyle
  • 1997: ''Number One Fan''

    Externals

  • at Impact Partners Film
Category:American documentary film producers
Category:Place of birth missing
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Category:Producers who won the Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners